The Collective
There are a lot of artists/art thats overlooked on dA. I will be posting a different subject every few weeks to bring some exposure to different artists, cameras, genre's etc.

The Polaroid
Polaroid (a trademark of the Polaroid Corporation) is the name of a type of synthetic plastic sheet which is used to polarise light. The original material, patented in 1929 and further developed in 1932 by Edwin H. Land, consists of many microscopic crystals of iodoquinine sulphate embedded in a transparent nitrocellulose polymer film. The needle-like crystals are aligned during manufacture of the film by stretching or by applying electric or magnetic fields. With the crystals aligned, the sheet is dichroic: it tends to absorb light which is polarised perpendicularly to the direction of the crystal alignment, but transmits light which is polarised parallel to it. This allows the material to be used as a light polariser.

There is more to polaroids then just an instant photo:
Polaroid Manipulations
Polaroid Transfers
I hope you enjoy this collection of Polaroid photos, transfers and manipulations as much as I did and find a new love for polaroids


This benefit of seeing...can come only if you pause a while, extricate yourself from the maddening mob of quick impressions ceaselessly battering our lives, and look thoughtfully at a quiet image...the viewer must be willing to pause, to look again, to meditate. -Dorothea Lange

~GoPolaroid is a polaroid dA community.

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transfers
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manipulations
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