Polaroid - An all Encompassing Moment In my Hand
Thursday, March 12, 2020
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| Alexandra Elizabeth |
Thinning out files of lawyers and businesspeople is onerous but not heart wrenching. Sifting
through many hundreds of family pictures is heart wrenching. And it cannot be a
quick deal as I must stop and show Rosemary, “Look at this picture of Hilary.
Do you remember?”
Today I found and made a pile of about 32 Polaroids. Our
daughters are pre-teenagers. The camera in question was a Polaroid SX-70. It
compensated for so-so photographs by the virtue that they were instantaneous. In
Spanish a snap is called an instantánea. I wrote about the history of
Polaroid here.
With further thought today it occurred to me that a Polaroid
is an example of an all-encompassing object that is a memory and I can hold in
my hand. There is no negative in the files or a picture in the back display of
my Fuji X-E3. The Polaroid is that moment in the past somehow becoming an
instant as I retrieve the place and the time.
It is magic.
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Rosemary, Hilary Anne & Alexandra, bottom left |
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| At the Space Needle |
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| With Silas Huckleback in North Vancouver |
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| My movie star Rosemary |
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| Hilary in Burnaby |
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| Rebecca Anne - Hilary's daughter |
