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Polaroid Masterpieces: Highlights from The WestLicht Collection

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Sahin Kaygun, Nude, 1983. Polaroid 600 HS. Hand-colored. © Burçak Kaygun/ WestLicht Collection.

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The polaroids should go on tour… First stop: LA! I would love to see them in person…

Polaroid is the canvas. We are the paintbrush. canvas+paintbrush=art!

i would love to see this in NYC. it would be awesome

[...] In the 70s and 80s, Polaroid’s founder, Edwin Herbert Land, provided prominent artists with custom-made cameras and film not available to the public. Big names like Andy Warhol, Robert Mapplethorpe and Ansel Adams were fans of the limited-edition technology and used it often, resulting in the 44,000-piece collection of Polaroid masterpieces now owned by Vienna-based WestLicht Museum of Photography. They’re displaying 350 of the photos now in Austria, but if you can’t catch a flight in time to check it out, Flavorwire has a preview. Link [...]

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These photos are gorgeous. Hopefully they’ll come to LA so we can see the whole show!

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[...] fallen in love with the WestLicht Museum of Photography's collection of polaroid snaps. 350 out of their four-and-a-half thousand strong collection, taken by internationally reknowned [...]

[...] OneModelPlace.com members who remember the good ol’ days of instant cameras will find the following gallery exhibit very interesting. Back in March, the Vienna-based WestLicht Museum of Photography purchased the International Polaroid Collection from the Swiss Musée de l’Elysée in Lausanne. They saved it from being sold off piecemeal with the rest of the bankrupt company’s holdings, Caroline Stanley reports for Flavorwire.com. [...]

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