TIM MANTOANI: 20x24" Polaroid Portraits Archiving Photographic Legends

MARY ELLEN MARK

Photograph © 2011 Tim Mantoani/All rights reserved
 

 

BILL EPPRIDGE

Photograph © 2011 Tim Mantoani/All rights reserved

AMY ARBUS

 Photograph © 2011 Tim Mantoani/All rights reserved

PHIL BORGES

Photograph © 2011 Tim Mantoani/All rights reserved

BEHIND PHOTOGRAPHS:

Archiving Photographic Legends 

 (Channel Photographics)

158 Photographer Portraits shot by Tim Mantoani

Forward by Steve McCurry, Essay by John Reuter

20 X 24" Polaroid Portraits of leading and legendary photographers including William Claxton, Elliott Erwitt, Duane Michals, Steve McCurry, Editta Sherman, Wiliam Wegman,  Lynn Goldsmith, Greg Gorman, Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, Antonin Kratochivil, Elsa Dorfman, John Delaney, Ralph Gibson and many many more...

“I chose the format for two reasons. First, it is very possible that in just a few years, film for this camera will no longer exist. Second, to me this is the ultimate view camera. If you are going to call the greatest living photographers and ask to make a photo of them and you are shooting 35mm digital, they may not take your call. But if you say you are shooting 20×24 Polaroid, they will at least listen to your pitch.” – Tim Mantoani

[WATCH THE ORIGINAL KICKSTARTER VIDEO]

ANTONIO LOPEZ: Instamatics

DIVINE (POLAROIDS), NEW YORK CITY, 1978

TINA CHOW, LONDON, 1975

MEN IN SHOWERS SERIES
KARL LAGERFELD, NEW YORK CITY, 1976

Yves Saint Laurent, Pierre Berge, Marina Schiano, Jerry Hall, Paris, 1977

Read Jean-Jacques Naudet's tribute to Antonio Lopez
La Lettre de la Photographie 12.5.2011

"If Antonio Lopez had left us only his Instamatic photographs, and not his Drawings [and Fashion Illustrations] for which he is known, we would still have cause to celebrate a brilliant artistic vision. The compendium includes the most creative and innovative of those images, spanning the 1970’s. Most of these have never been published and will come as a revelation to those unfamiliar with this aspect of his achievements." – Twin Palms Publishers

"Antonio was a magnet for beautiful, fun, sexy people, and his portraits – done with a ten-dollar camera– exude that Latin lover artist passion that he was all about. He got more sex from a shoe and a drugstore camera than most fashion photographers got from nudes in a million-dollar studio. He never paid a hair or makeup man; he did it himself or had Way Bandy, then the best, do it for fun. Fun! Bandy worked five days a week for Avedon and Scavullo for huge money with contracts but worked all night free for Antonio." – from Instamatics, Antonio Lopez with Michael McKenzie Interview, June 28, 1976

Instamatics Antonio Lopez
Twin Palms, 2011

MIKAEL KENNEDY: Passport To Trespass

No. 101479-71
Photograph (c) Mikael Kennedy /All Rights Reserved

No. 101479-710
Photograph (c) Mikael Kennedy /All Rights Reserved

Polaroid Vitae Vol. I: October 14, 1979
28 B+W Polaroids, 32 newsprint pages, 1000 copies

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Hunt Them Out is a Limited Edition Zine
1000 signed + numbered copies

Photograph (c) Mikael Kennedy /All Rights Reserved

Photograph (c) Mikael Kennedy /All Rights Reserved

Loading my SX70 and duffel with some of the last remaining packs of the film in the world I set out to gather as many portraits of the folks I had photographed over the years using this unique film before it disappeared forever...

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In the Seventh Volume of the Passport to Trespass series we are updated on several of the central characters in this decade long documentation of Mikael Kennedy's wanderings and adventures. Spanning 2008 and 2009 as Kennedy visited old friends and wandered the northern coasts of the country, these portraits give us a paused moment in the journey, where we face the individuals who have played recurring roles in the Passport to Trespass story.

Volume 7 takes on a new form from previous publications, this booklet printed in Zine form is a 24 page piece containing 20 Polaroid portraits shot with the rare Polaroid film; TZ Artistic. These muted and faded images reflect the vanishing Polaroid film.

Hunt Them Out is a limited edition Zine printed in conjunction with the release of these 20 Polaroids in an online only exhibition with Peter Hay Halpert Fine Art, NY.

Mikael Kennedy

MIKAEL KENNEDY: 500 Polaroids

Austin, Randolph, VT 2006
Photograph (c) Mikael Kennedy /All Rights Reserved

Oregon Coast 2007
Photograph (c) Mikael Kennedy /All Rights Reserved

Kennedy Blog: Passport To Trespass

Shoot The Moon 500 Polaroids by Mikael Kennedy
April 14 - May 2, 2010 • Suite 524 of The Chelsea Hotel
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