In 1983 Michael Jackson escaped the lense of a Polaroid Autofocus 660 in the video for Billie Jean. Photo by Sean Smith Surrounding the Polaroid is what appears to me as a bunch of Mamiya Z-series cameras, but what’s more important: Is that a (Dirty) Diana I see there in the upper left corner?! Your [...]
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Photographers’ Laboratory | Papersky Toshio Saito is one of the last film printers in Japan and the only with a medal of honor. Saito San brought contemporary Japanese photography onto the worlds stage when he did the printing for MoMA’s legendary 1974 New Japanese Photography show. He printed for the likes of Ken Domon, Shomei [...]
In 1981 Duran Duran used a Nikon FE to capture three femmes fatales on a fashion runway in their video for “Girls On Film”. The camera is seen with a Nikkor-s Auto 1:2.8 f=35mm–and possibly an MD-11 or MD-12 motor drive. Picture by Alfredo Hantsch The song begins with a recording of the rapid whirring [...]
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