Polaroid

Anna Malina is an talented artist who explores self identity through Polaroids, journals, and animated GIFS. I really love her dreamy, introspective work. Bringing the GIF – traditionally used for memes and other silly stuff – to her fine art practice inspired me.

This collage from one of my sketchbooks has five portraits of one of my friends, and a self portrait of hers. The square in the upper right is a standard Polaroid if that helps with the scale. I really should go through and put sizes on these posts.

I'm a fan of Tarkovsky, so it was a pleasant surprise to find that his Polaroid photos have been published! 60 of his Polaroids from the 70s and 80s have been published in Instant Light: Tarkovsky Polaroids by Thames and Hudson.