Patti Smith, Land 250

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• I first took polaroid in the early 1970s as components for collages. Most of them are lost. In the 1980s I took photographs with a German Minox 35EL. In 1995, after the death of my husband, I was unable to centre on the complex process of drawing, recording or writing a poem. The need for a immediacy drew me again to the polaroid. I chose a vintage Land 100. The instantaneous method gave me a sense of release and served my creative needs. In 2002 I switched to a vintage Land 250. It is a folding pack film camera with a single-window rangefinder made by Zeiss Ikon. Though it can be slightly idiosyncratic, I like the technical simplicity. Near / Far. Dark / Light. For a time I had a room of my own on MacDougal Street in New York. It had been a butcher shop for decades and then a laundromat... (查看原文)

  lleiou 2015-11-02 08:10:45