Add an extra expressive quality to your letters by writing them on these picture-profuse notecards. Including 20 different cards of poignant Polaroid-effect prints, from a little girl in oversized rain boots to a yummy looking cupcake on a dish, along with envelopes, this adorable stationary set is sure to make your letters extra meaningful!

Schnabel is a major force in the international art scene. Shot with an extraordinary 20 x 24 inch vintage camera, his intimate and revealing large format images are printed in colour and black and white; some have been hand coloured or painted on; and many are previously unpublished. The photographs include intriguing portraits of the artist's family and friends, including Lou Reed, Placido Domingo, the Beastie Boys, and Mickey Rourke. There are also private spaces dear to Schnabel, such as his own Palazzo Chupi in New York City - which he designed and decorated - as well as interiors of studios in Brooklyn, Montauk, and Long Island. Together these Polaroids create a unique tableau, both intensely personal and poetic.

该书出版于1979年，收录了80幅全彩的宝丽来SX-70作品，主要由欧洲及美国摄影师拍摄，如著名的Helmut Newton, Andy Warhol, Lucas Samaras等。 该书有英语、德语、法语三个版本。 此处上传的是德语版封面。

While the world evaporates into the digital, the anachronistic Polaroid snapshot dominates media and advertising. The recent sale of the photography collection owned by Polaroid’s inventor, Edwin Land, to the Viennese photography museum WestLicht marks an artmarket trend toward the analog. Beginning in the sixties, Polaroid supplied artists around the world, from Ansel Adams to Andy Warhol, with each one of the imperium’s latest products. In return, 4,400 works by 800 photographers found their way into the company’s International Collection at their European headquarters near Frankfurt am Main. In 2008, when the last instant-film factory was rescued from demolition by the company Impossible, the founder’s commitment to collecting could be carried on as well. This publication features selected Polaroid masterpieces and new Impossible instant photography by contemporary artists such as Stefanie Schneider and Nobuyoshi Araki.

攝影就是要立即分享！ Polaroid拍立得改變了攝影 Andy Warhol、Ansel Adams、Walker Evans、André Kertész等大攝影家 都曾以拍立得創作偉大作品！ 一九七○年代，每年有十億張照片是拍立得作品。拍立得改寫了攝影文化史，生活照不必再送進專業暗房經過長時間的洗沖，只要十幾秒的聊天時間，照片就顯像完成。而且拍立得不只是拍攝生活照，嚴肅的攝影家和藝術家──Andy Warhol、Ansel Adams、David Hockney、Walker Evans、William Wegman、Robert Mapplethorpe、André Kertész也以拍立得創作過偉大的作品。 蘭德於一九三○年代創立寶麗來公司（Polaroid），剛開始專注於生產偏光鏡，一九四三年後，蘭德突然把興趣轉向拍立得相機，如何將感光後的底片，在一台小小的相機內完成沖洗的暗房過程，成為史上最具挑戰和創意、也是最成功的其中一項發明！ 為了改善拍立得底片的整體表現，蘭德於一九四九年以每個月一百美金聘請風景攝影大師亞當斯擔任拍立得顧問，之後寶麗來公司更進一步主動和各藝術家合作，提供他們拍立得底片，而拍攝出來的作品則當作寶麗來公司的收藏，為拍立得在藝術創作奠定深厚的基礎。 即使今日數位相機當道，但寶麗來拍立得已經由相機升華為一種攝影次文化：古董造型的機身、黃褐色的照片、照片四邊寬大的白框……在復古風潮下，拍立得照片即有數位相機拍完立即看的優點，更有不可複製的特性。 本書收錄多張攝影家的拍立得作品，圍繞著蘭德和每一代拍立得的歷史，帶你走過尚未數位化前最具生命力的攝影故事。

Polaroids occupy a special place in the hearts of many photo enthusiasts who remember a time when "instant photography" meant a one-of-a-kind prints that developed within minutes of clicking the shutter. What was once a crucial tool for photographers to test their shots before shooting on film has now become obsolete in the face of digital photography. Luckily for us, legendary photographer Helmut Newton saved his test Polaroids, allowing a privileged and rare chance to see the tests from a selection of his greatest shoots over a period of decades, including many from the TASCHEN titles SUMO, A Gun for Hire, and Work. Put together by his widow, June Newton, his collection captures the magic of Helmut Newton photo shoots as only Polaroids can.

A powerful collection of the luminous last work by one of the true giants of twentieth-century photography. After the death of his wife, André Kertész consoled himself by taking up a new camera, the Polaroid SX70. As with earlier equipment, he mastered the camera and produced a provocative body of work that both honored his wife and lifted him out of depression. Here Kertész dips into his reserves one last time, tapping new people, ideas, and tools to generate a whole new body of work through which he transforms from a broken man into a youthful artist. Taken in his apartment just north of New York City’s Washington Square, many of these photographs were shot either from his window or in the windowsill. We see a fertile mind at work, combining personal objects into striking still lifes set against cityscape backgrounds, reflected and transformed in glass surfaces. Almost entirely unpublished work, these photographs are a testament to the genius of the photographer’s eye as manifested in the simple Polaroid.

内容简介： 乡愁，也是一种目光。这本俄国导演塔可夫斯基（Andrey Tarkovsky）的拍立得摄影集，背后有段曲折複杂的故事。1981年，塔可夫斯基已名声远播，受邀和妻子至义大利工作，继而计画定居异国。此举触怒苏联当局，于是将其儿子扣押，一家分隔两地，塔氏不得返回俄国。这本摄影集的前半部，包括大量塔可夫斯基在俄国时期的家庭、妻儿、及生活快照，后半部，则是他至义大利后的影像素写。除了他一贯的诗意与神秘气质外，裡面诸多故土与爱子照片，之后变成流亡异国的导演魂牵梦繫的执念，这些影像后来变成了电影《乡愁》。直到塔氏病痛缠身，即将离世前夕，其子才获准前往义大利，一家团聚。 本书的图片都由老塔亲自标上注解，整部书弥漫着一如其电影镜头般的昏黄深邃感，是一本拍利得版的小电影，值得影迷们收藏。

Defining moments In existence for over 50 years, the Polaroid Corporation's photography collection is the greatest collection of Polaroid images in the world. Begun by Polaroid founder Edwin Land and photographer Ansel Adams, the collection now includes Images by hundreds of photographers throughout the world and contains important pieces by artists such as David Hockney, Helmut Newton, Jeanloup Sieff, and Robert Rauschenberg. The Polaroid Book, a survey of this remarkable collection, pays tribute to a medium that defies the digital age and remains a favorite among artists for its quirky look and instantly gratifying, one-of-kind images.; over 400 works from the Polaroid Collection; essay by Polaroid's Barbara Hitchcock illuminating the beginnings and history of the collection; technical reference section featuring the various types of Polaroid cameras

"Instant photography at the push of a button!" During the 1960s and '70s, Polaroid was the coolest technology company on earth. Like Apple, it was an innovation machine that cranked out one must-have product after another. Led by its own visionary genius founder, Edwin Land, Polaroid grew from a 1937 garage start-up into a billion-dollar pop-culture phenomenon. Instant tells the remarkable tale of Land's one-of-a-kind invention-from Polaroid's first instant camera to hit the market in 1948, to its meteoric rise in popularity and adoption by artists such as Ansel Adams, Andy Warhol, and Chuck Close, to the company's dramatic decline into bankruptcy in the late '90s and its unlikely resurrection in the digital age. Instant is both an inspiring tale of American ingenuity and a cautionary business tale about the perils of companies that lose their creative edge.

What a sketch is for the painter is a Polaroid for the photographer, namely the first formulation of a concept, the raw material of the imagination, as it were. When Helmut Newton published a selection of his Polaroids in Pola Woman in 1992, the subculture called it a stroke of genius. It was the first time that the master let people look directly over his shoulder. We became witnesses to the magic and often intense process by which erotic fantasies become finished images; the preliminary stages of a perfectly styled Newton photograph. It is remarkable, if not astonishing, that even this "raw material" possesses very original qualities and a charm of its own.

50多年来，宝丽莱公司收藏的相片集是世界上最棒的宝丽莱相片。本书是影像产品库Polaroid 宝丽莱的照片集，展示了Polaroid在过去50年摄影中的选出的400多件精美案例。当你第一次接触Polaroid收集时，那些图象的多样化以及它的 品质给人很深的印象。本书开始于Polaroid 宝丽莱的创始人埃德温·兰德（Edwin Land）和摄影师安塞尔·亚当斯（Ansel Adams），收集册广泛，全世界许许多多的摄影师，包含了许多艺术家如David Hockney、全世界最著名的时尚摄影大师赫尔穆特·牛顿（Helmut Newton），法国时尚摄影师杰鲁普.西埃（Jeanloup Sieff）以及罗伯特·劳森伯格（Robert Rauschenberg），创重要作品。在当代很多事情者是瞬间而逝的，尤其是图图片，数码相机永远改变了我们的生活，但是很有意思的是埃德温·兰德（Edwin Land） 和他的宝丽莱公司第一次为平凡的我们创造了“瞬间摄影”，在自己人手心中从照片中看我们的变化感，以及拍照时富有创意及技术调节都有是 一种很惊奇的新技术！过去的许多年里，传统的摄影显著的发生变化，而Polaroid 继续还是富有独特见解和意识的重要的、敏感的富有表现的材料。

《Instant Light塔可夫斯基拍立得摄影集》是Instant Light: Tarkovsky Polaroids的中译本。这本书收集了塔可夫斯基在1979至1984年之间，在前苏联和意大利所拍的69张照片，即塔可夫斯基完成《潜行者》（Stalker，1979）之后，在《乡愁》（Nostalgia，1983）摄制期间所拍的。 这本拍立得摄影集，背后有段曲折复杂的故事。1981年，塔可夫斯基已名声远播，受邀和妻子至意大利工作，继而计划定居异国。此举触怒苏联当局，于是将其儿子扣押，一家分隔两地，塔氏不得返回俄国。这本摄影集的前半部，包括大量塔可夫斯基在俄国时期的家庭、妻儿、及生活快照，后半部，则是他至意大利后的影像素写。除了他一贯的诗意与神秘气质外，里面诸多故土与爱子照片，之后变成流亡异国的导演魂牵梦系的执念，这些影像后来变成电影，就叫做《乡愁》（Nostalghia）。直到塔氏病痛缠身，即将离世前夕，其子才获准前往意大利，一家拥抱。

宝丽来相机无疑是艺术家、摄影师、以及时尚达人心中的最佳答案之一。 1970年代，每年有十亿张照片由宝丽来拍摄而来，其风靡程度丝毫不亚于当今的iphone。 宝丽来改写了摄影文化史，生活照不必再送进专业暗房经过长时间的洗冲，只要十几秒的聊天时间，照片就显像完成。而且宝丽来不只是拍摄生活照，摄影家和艺术家——Andy Warhol、Ansel Adams、David Hockney、Walker Evans、William Wegman、Robert Mapplethorpe、André Kertész都以宝丽来创作过伟大的作品。 数码相机当道的今天，宝丽来虽然不再是使用最广泛的相机，但它早已由相机升华为一种独特摄影文化，与当今的复古潮流和各种及时网络分享应用融为了一体…… 《永不褪色的时光：宝丽来的故事》讲述了宝丽来的诞生与发展历史，回顾了20世纪70年代至今的诸多艺术家，时尚icon如何用宝丽来创造了历史，记录了每个精彩的瞬间。《永恒的瞬间：宝丽来的故事》将带你领略前数码时代最具生命力的摄影故事，探索后数码时代宝丽来摄影艺术的崭新未来。 埃德温·兰德是史蒂夫·乔布斯青年时期即非常崇拜的人物，这本书解释了乔布斯崇拜他的理由。受其激励，乔布斯之后在车库创立了苹果公司，并将其发展成为集技术与创新为一体的商业帝国。这是一个令人神往的故事，关乎创新和前瞻性视野，是启迪，也是告诫。 ——沃尔特·艾萨克森（乔布斯唯一授权的官方传记《史蒂夫·乔布斯传》作者） 每一个有意义的发明，都必须惊世骇俗、出乎意料，也必须闯进一个尚未为此做好准备的世界。假如这个世界已经准备好了，那么它也称不上是一种发明。——埃德温·兰德（宝丽来公司创始人、即显摄影的发明者、被乔布斯奉为精神导师） 这个人（埃德温·兰德）是个国宝。我不明白这样一个人为什么没被奉为偶像受人崇拜。成为那样的人才是最不可思议的事——不是宇航员、也不是球员，而是像他那样的人。——史蒂夫·乔布斯（苹果公司联合创始人）