More on The Death of Polaroid

The New York Times critic, Michael Kimmelman, who can be reached here, reminds us that a one-time giant is falling. (I posted about this earlier in the year here.)

"Digital cameras let us do away with whatever we decide is not quite right, and so delete the mishaps that not too often but once in a blue moon creep onto film and that we appreciate only later as accidental masterpieces. In fact, the new technology may be not more convenient but less than Polaroid instant film cameras were, considering the printers and wires and other electronic gadgets now required, but at this one thing, the act of destruction, a source of unthinking popularity in our era of forgetfulness and extreme makeovers, digital performs all too well. Polaroids, reflecting our imperfectability, reminded us by contrast of our humanity."

Read the full article The Polaroid: Imperfect, Yet Magical.