It is the end of an era. Polaroid has stopped making film.
When I was 12, I was mesmerized by the magic of watching a small square blank slowly but clearly develop into a picture. Now there is a camera in a phone, a camera in a laptop, a camera that records you buying gasoline and a camera that records you walking into work or past a school. There are not enough eyes for the cameras we own, and they all work much faster and better than a Polaroid.
Because of the capitalist model, this glut of cameras probably says more about our culture than we'd like to admit. We are obsessed with image. We judge by appearances because there's no time to examine what is really going on before we move on to the next frame, the next image. One photo can ruin a career or make one, and it makes no regard for the humanity of the subject matter.
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