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THE LAST HURRAH Maybe you still use it now and then. Or perhaps it’s gathering dust on some shelf in the garage or waiting in a box, ready for your next yard sale. Your Polaroid. Brownies and Instamatics were fine, but no other camera gave the shooter the immediacy, the intimacy and the elation of reproducing life in their hand. So, Polaroids likely surfaced at all the great and pedestrian moments of your life. Graduations, vacations, breakfast. Most important, anyone could do it. You became an artist, a family historian, a memory maker in a click. Polaroid truly was the everyman camera.
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GOODBYE, POLAROID In my hand is a photograph. It’s cardboard stiff and shiny and saturated with the colors of sepia-toned Popsicles. In it, a pretty-enough girl squints into the lens of a Polaroid camera. Her left hand moves, as if she’s abandoned shading her eyes from the North Florida sun. A slight breeze lifts her blonde hair. You can’t tell it’s a hot summer afternoon or that she is 13 going on 45 or that people are everywhere, tourists wandering a cordoned off main street of some small town. You can’t tell it is the first time a handsome boy had given her a second look.
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VideoSt. Patrick's Parade
Thousands came out to enjoy the annual St. Patrick's Day parade on 5th Avenue South in Naples. Watch |
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| Credits: Polaroid photography & additional text by Judy Lutz; Slideshow, Polaroid video and additional multimedia material produced by Vonna Keomanyvong. Stories by T.D. Mobley-Martinez. News videos by Manuel Martinez, Michelle Cassell and Andre Francisco. Graphic design by Fritz Otiker & Chris Silk. Additional programming by Jason Garcia. Polaroid photo submissions courtesy Naples Daily News readers. |
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