Polaroid

As a result of Polaroid’s bankruptcy, Sotheby’s in New York has been auctioning part of the “Polaroid Collection”.

The auction, was featuring shots by Ansel Adams, Helmut Newton, Andy Warhol ,Chuck Close, David Levinthal and other 20th century photographers.

Ohhh, I wish I had one, just one of these pictures!

Click here to visit Sotheby’s online catalogue of the auction, It is amazing to see all these precious images.

And just as a side note, Polaroid went bankrupt after owner Tom Petters was charged with, and later convicted of, running a wide-spread $3.7 billion Ponzi scheme.

From left to right, top to bottom: pictures from Helmut Newton, Helmut Newton, Andy Warhol, Ansel Adams, Chuck Close.

Helmut Newton

Berlin is cool, very cool, and if there is one thing that you don’t want to miss, it is the Museum fur Fotografie.
It is this impressive building which at the moment hosts 2 exhibitions. One is a retrospective of the life of late Mr. Newton, with newspaper publications, letters from his friends, props and belongings and a real size reproduction of his office. The other is about the Taschen edition, called Sumo, of his work. You can admire real prints and also the entire layout of the Sumo book.
Although we ave probably seen a lot of these pictures before, they are very beautiful, provocative and daring.
I have enjoyed seeing them all together, as they adorn what it seems to be miles of walls.