Jamie Livingston's Polaroids

An “artist” and “cinematographer” named Jamie Livingston, who died in 1997 at the age of 41, left behind a collection of Polaroid photos, taken one-a-day, over an eighteen-year period. You can read more about it here. And the collection of Polaroids have been scanned and can be viewed online.

I never heard of the guy before, but apparently some people think he’s important enough to consider his Polaroid collection significant.

At online digital camera forums, people obsess over each camera’s resolution, dynamic range, and high ISO capabilities, but here we see people getting all excited over a bunch of low resolution blurry photos with extremely bad color quality. This demonstrates that it's more important to have a creative buzz about you than it is to have a big expensive camera.

The photo pictured above was taken April 27, 1988, and it looks like some blurry people at Shea Stadium.

Hat tip: The Online Photographer.