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POLAROID fauxtographs

Hand manipulated Polaroid SX-70 Film

In the mid 1990s while living in San Francisco, I was introduced to the process of hand-manipulating Polaroid films to create unique "painterly" looking photographs. For nearly 10 years I photographed exclusively with a vintage 1972 Polaroid SX-70 camera and I developed my own unique painterly style of hand-manipulated images. I coined the term fauxtographs® for my stylized SX-70 photographs. I was able to soften the hard lines of photography using small sculpting tools to move the emulsion directly on the film immediately after taking the photo. My original fauxtographs® are only 3”x3” but they have been scanned as large digital files which can be enlarged to 48”x48” or larger on paper, canvas, aluminum, wood, or acrylic. Click here for more details about my process.

Note: Shown here are only a very small portion of my fauxtographs. Please contact me if you are looking for a specific location or subject matter. 

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