Between 1979 and 1997, photographer Jamie Livingston took a Polaroid every day. These pictures captured important moments (his battle with cancer, his wedding…) but they also documented all the in between moments that give out lives texture. This image is from the day I was born. I’m a narcissist like that.
It’d be hard to do a project like this today, if only because Polaroid film is no longer manufactured. Digital photography has many advantages, but it’s awfully easy to take 50 photos and then to erase 49. The one left over is the ideal, not the reality. With his Polaroid, Livingston only had one shot a day. No re-dos. Kind of like real life.
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