20×24 Holdings LLC is commissioning Mammoth Camera Company of San Francisco, CA to build two new 20×24 cameras to use instant film. Polaroid Corporation built the original five cameras in 1977 and 1978 and three of those are still in active use today. Mammoth Camera, founded in 2000 has already produced one new 20×24 camera […]
Jennifer Trausch has been photographing on location in the Southern United States for the past three years. Taking a “vacation” from her job managing the 20×24 Studio in New York City, Trausch explored Southern culture with a device not usually associated with intimate documentation, the 235 pound 20×24 Camera. In this article Trausch describes her […]
In 2002 Hearst Magazine produced a special issue with Narciso Rodriguez, Chloe Sevigny, Mike and Doug Starn, Audra McDonald, A.M. Homes, Rocco DiSpirito, Karim Rashid, and Babel Gilberto. Timothy Greenfield-Sanders chose to use the Polaroid 20×24 Camera for the occassion. Timothy Greenfield-Sanders and the 20×24 Camera
We had some fun with Evan Kafka’s photos of us for the Forbes Magazine piece. We took the out takes and made an animation from them. You can see more of Evan’s work at www.evankafka.com.
Bollywood superstar Shahrukh Khan and fashion giant Vivienne Westwood have an unlikely common muse: a 33-year-old Polaroid instant camera. Make no mistake–this isn’t one of those handheld gadgets that became ubiquitous in the 1970s. The so-called 20×24 Land Camera is a 235-pound behemoth, producing prints nearly 2 feet square. Edwin Land (1909-91), founder of Polaroid, […]
