Lisa Wiseman
If you haven't noticed from several of my posts, I've been obsessing over polaroids lately and I'm still trying to figure out exactly why. Lisa Wiseman's thoughts on the "new polaroid" helped me understand a bit better. I found this artist and information on one of my favorite and most visited blogs
The Jealous Curator. I've already linked the blog name to her site and encourage you to visit, I find artists that either originate or have overlap with the ones she features. I'm going to copy paste below her post, but to view the images in her post on Lisa Wiseman just search her name in Jealous Curator's search box on the top right.
The post is as follows:
"Lovely old polaroids, right? No. They are, in fact,
“the evolution of polaroid”. San Francisco based photographer
Lisa Wiseman
used her iPhone to capture all of these
vintage-not-really-vintage-at-all images… and I love them! So much! I’ll
let Lisa explain:
Because the iPhone has become a ubiquitous accessory,
on-the-go picture taking is now the norm. People use their iPhones to
take spontaneous photos in the same carefree way that cheap polaroid
film has been used inthe past. In concept and ideology the iPhone mimics
polaroid, however it pushes the aesthetic forward by utilizing a
non-film (but technologically average) medium. Just like traditional
polaroids had a specific size and unique look, iPhone photos, both raw
and processed with iPhone apps, are unmistakable because the technology
limits them to a fixed size and resolution and imbues them with a unique
chromatic aberration that says iPhone and nothing else. I love the new
polaroid.
Me too Lisa, me too."