Polaroids

“…  just like the Polaroid owner for whom photographs are a handy, fast form of note-taking, or the shutterbug with a Brownie who takes snapshots as souvenirs of daily life."

I took this quote for my photograph because I thought it was relatable how there are people who collect Polaroid pictures of times that they want to remember. It is a way to instantly get a picture printed minutes after it is taken using a Polaroid camera, and it can be used for a number of reasons. In the quote it states how it can be used as a fast way of “note-taking” or taking “snapshots of souvenirs of daily life.” Basically, it could be any reason and I have a few pictures that show that. In a few of my pictures, they were taken over the summer, when I went to the beach at Seaside Heights, one with me sitting on the boardwalk, and another with me with two prizes that I had won. The other picture of me is when I went to a birthday party. The final picture is a selfie of myself, with me smiling looking at the camera. This picture I just recently took for this assignment, and it’s not anything specific that I was doing, but these are all “snapshots as souvenirs of my daily life.” It is basically like I’m taking notes of things I do through photos. As time goes by, and the collection grows, it is definitely something I could look back on one day and remember.

Resources:
http://www.susansontag.com/SusanSontag/books/onPhotographyExerpt.shtml