Image of the Day

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Jerry Hall by Ezra Petronio, creative director and publisher of self service magazine. An exhibition of Petronio's polaroids opens tonight at (?!) Dallas Contemporary.

C-H-R-O-M-E

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Polaroid photograph by Patrick F. Tobin capturing
Rob Pruitt's chrome-plated sculpture of Andy Warhol,
which was unveiled yesterday in NYC's Union Square.
The piece is on view through Oct. 2.

Image of the Day

. Well, two of them, both Polaroids by Helmut Newton: Untitled (Girl Smoking a Cigar), and Blumarine Fashion, 1993 – from Helmut Newton: Selected Works, on display at Hamiltons Gallery in London through May 15th. Click here for more.

Photo Finish

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Robert Rauschenberg Japanese Sky I from the Bleacher Series (Unique large-format Polapan print)

Polaroid is being forced by a Minnesota bankruptcy court to sell off hundreds of photographs collected by its co-founder/inventor, Edwin H. Land, including those shown above and below by Robert Rauschenberg and Ansel Adams. The auction will be held this coming June at Sotheby's, and the New York Times' excellent photography blog Lens has a great slideshow of available prints by Chuck Close, Dorothea Lange, Robert Frank, Andy Warhol, and many others. Click here to check it out, and read more about the auction here.

Ansel Adams Aspens, Northern New Mexico (Mural-sized gelatin silver print)

In an Instant

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Polaroid SX-70 Promotional Film by Charles and Ray Eames