When people ask me why I shoot Polaroids, I lie to them

Candy Clark and her Polaroid vision of New Hollywood: ‘Back then people would just pose, they weren’t so fussy about their photos like they are today’

In the 1970s, the actress Candy Clark was a twenty-something new arrival to Los Angeles who, after getting a few gigs as a model in New York, had landed the roles of Faye in Fat City (1972) and Debbie in American Graffiti (1973), the latter of which earned her an Oscar nomination. Without realizing it, she had landed in the middle of an era that would become known — and mythologized — as New Hollywood. It was the moment of the debut of directors…

When people ask me why I shoot Polaroids, I lie to them

Give me the boxy, modest Polaroid, if only for its defiance, even of its creator. While poor Edwin Land was fixated on creating "the realization of an impulse," something that could be "an adjunct to your memory," what he couldn't know, as the future unfolded beyond him, was that his creation's enduring value would prove to be its relationship to every time but the present. from Polaroid Death Machine