Topic: Maripol: New Wave Polaroid Photographer

[Francois]

I just stumbled on this while going through a magazine at the store and I think Hookstraped will enjoy.
She's Maripol, a French photographer who moved to NYC in the early 80's and specializes in Polaroid work (SX-70).
She got pictures of all the greats of the era like Warhol, Madonna, Grace Jones, Haring, Basquiat, Debbie Harry... and also of some lesser known people.
Lets just say a lot of her work is NSFW...

Here's the google search http://www.google.ca/search?q=maripol+polaroids&newwindow=1&safe=off
and her decidedly very 90's website
http://www.maripolitan.com/polarama.html

[tkmedia]

awesome website! exactly like the kind of sites i make in 1995! but those are not the type of buttons i use. Just missing a Netscape Now button on the bottom.

[Francois]

It's crazy but I sometimes miss the old-skool stuff...
Geocities... those were the good days

[Indofunk]

Oh how I'd love too see my very first website again ... which I'm sure is possible via the way back machine ... if only I remembered what the domain name was

[Rafael Morales]

ahh Geocities... those were the days.  I got to say imho when Yahoo takes over something they aim high. Before trying to shoot themselves in the foot. 

[Francois]

Yeah, talk about it... I heard rumors that they plan on getting rid of Flickr. They say it has zero value in their portfolio... It probably doesn't bring any revenue.

[Skorj]

Yeah, talk about it... I heard rumors that they plan on getting rid of Flickr. They say it has zero value in their portfolio... It probably doesn't bring any revenue.

Funny you mention that. Though it, and TrekEarth, provided a great concept, I have yet to see anyone really monetize the format. Pity! Fickle I guess wasted too much time on tweaking stuff that wasn't broken to start. Always costly that.

Regardless, love the Maripol page! Sooo neat for Polaroids. Sweet!