Fred Duquenne
Happy birthday today - Dave from 1966.
Perhaps one of the first of several dozen images I took 57 years ago: 1966 or 67.
My younger brother was three or four, I twelve or thirteen; I had quite luckily gotten the Polaroid Swinger "Sentinel" model for Christmas. It was a big deal.
I don't imagine that the adults of that time or today would consider Polaroid's effort to be of archival quality ,or anywhere near the integrity of regular film.
I can remember the motor buzz as the flat film came out, peeling the backing off, and putting a clear gloss layer on the image side with an applicator that came with film packs; you can see the remainder of the glossy coating on the unretouched picture.
I am happy beyond my words to have this image ,and that I had the interest to take it long ago; unlike the 620 contact prints I later developed and fixed, this one survived.
I am nine years senior to my brother Dave, and as time would have it ,we are the last two living in the family we grew up with. .
Happy birthday today - Dave from 1966.
Perhaps one of the first of several dozen images I took 57 years ago: 1966 or 67.
My younger brother was three or four, I twelve or thirteen; I had quite luckily gotten the Polaroid Swinger "Sentinel" model for Christmas. It was a big deal.
I don't imagine that the adults of that time or today would consider Polaroid's effort to be of archival quality ,or anywhere near the integrity of regular film.
I can remember the motor buzz as the flat film came out, peeling the backing off, and putting a clear gloss layer on the image side with an applicator that came with film packs; you can see the remainder of the glossy coating on the unretouched picture.
I am happy beyond my words to have this image ,and that I had the interest to take it long ago; unlike the 620 contact prints I later developed and fixed, this one survived.
I am nine years senior to my brother Dave, and as time would have it ,we are the last two living in the family we grew up with. .