Mary Moorman's camera, measurements of the same model camera show that the
center of the Polaroid lens is 2.25 inches below the camera viewfinder which means, she was using with her right eye.
Other measurements show that the focal plane of the Polaroid camera was just under one inch from the back of the camera
as measured from beneath the viewfinder. The lens was 4.5 inches in front of the back of the camera.
Additionally, the camera lens was about 1.5 inches above the bottom of the camera as she held
it
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Polaroid Highlander Model 80A camera
(seen below) is the same model used by Mary Moorman to
take the famous photo of John F. Kennedy immediately after he was
shot
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Instead of updating the Polaroid
camera (see above), Polaroid has updated the 'instant photo'
aspect, by building a handheld printer. Called the Polaroid PoGo, and it's a small
printer that connects to your phone or digital camera, and prints out the color images
on special paper.
Each photo prints out in less than a minute
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Mapplethorpe took his first photographs
using a Polaroid camera. He
did not consider himself a photographer, but wished to use his own photographic
images in his paintings, rather than pictures from magazines. "I never liked
photography," he is quoted as saying, "Not for the sake of photography. I like the
object. I like the photographs when you hold them in your hand"
Robert Mapplethorpe
1946, the third of six children. He remembered
very secure childhood on Long Island, which he summed up by saying, “I come from
suburban America. It was a very safe environment, and it was a good place to come
from in that it was a good place to leave.” He received a B.F.A. from Pratt Institute in
Brooklyn, where he produced artwork in a variety of media. His early interest
reflected the importance of the photography in the culture and art including the work of such notable artists as Andy Warhol, whom Mapplethorpe
greatly admired.
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Black and White Photography
