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lauradi7dwThere are a lot of weird things about my current college experience. It dawned on me that part of it is the fact that I am not studying a foreign language. I don't think there was a single semester at UNC that I was not doing so. (I'm cheating slightly and counting PLC (on punch cards) as a foreign language. That was summer school 1975). Of the courses I took at Harvard Extension in the 1970s and 1980s, two were in the Folklore department but the others were Russian and German. Maybe after I stop freaking out about Physics and its math friends, I could start auditing some language course.
Inject requisite Madeleine L'Engle sorrow here.
Today's entry in Neil Gaiman's journal has a large Polaroid of him.
http://www.neilgaiman.com/journal/
Twenty years ago, a picture of that sort was taken of us. One of my co-workers was a photography student at MassArt, and she had access to one of the giant Polaroids. We paid 20 dollars for the film - she took the photo for free as practice. I love the web. I haven't seen her in ages, but 20 seconds of searching found her web page. She's still a photographer.
http://sharpeshot.com/Site/Welcome.html
We had our picture up for a long time, but several years ago it fell and the glass broke. I never got it re-framed and now I'm sorry - sitting around unprotected, part of it has faded. I looked through part of Elsa Dorfman's web site
http://www.elsa.photo.net/
and hers don't seem to have faded. I hope someone is working on making the paper and chemicals, so the process doesn't go extinct.
Here are two versions of the picture, one looking more Polaroidy than the other
Florence-to-be is there too, under the baggy dress. Arthur and I each have an outside hand in a pocket, but I don't like the way it looks like I'm reaching for something at the same time.
It's like something from Red Riding Hood "What big eyeglasses you have!" The better to reflect at you...
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Date: 2007-09-08 11:56 am (UTC)Twenty years ago. I was at MassArt then. They must have just gotten the camera; I remember the flurry over its arrival.
The sparkles on your glasses in the lower version show up better than in the first, and are really quite cool. Very arty.
(framing with UV proof glass should help prevent fading. Polaroids do fade.)