INSTANTANEOUS: THE POLAROID LEGACY 2017

Opening Reception Friday October 6, 6:00-9:00

Closing Reception + Festival Wrap Party Sunday October 29, 6:00-midnight

Anchorlight is participating in the month long CLICK! Photography Festival with an exhibition celebrating the Polaroid image. From its inception in 1947, the Polaroid system inspired artists to experiment–to dazzling effect–with the cameras’ unique technologies. Edwin Land, the inventor of the first Polaroid instant camera, remarked on his discovery, “Photography will never be the same.” And he was right. Polaroid photographs have been used and ingeniously manipulated by Walker Evans, David Hockney, Barbara Kasten, Robert Mapplethorpe, Lucas Samaras, and others. Polaroids affected and, in many instances, forever changed the way they captured the world around them.

The qualities of the various Polaroid films are unique and hard to duplicate with any other medium. The popularity of these films is said to have been an inspiration to companies like Hipstamatic and Lomography. The artists in this exhibition represent the incredible diversity of creative approaches to using this medium.