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He Took a Polaroid Every Day, Until the Day He Died
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He Took a Polaroid Every Day, Until the Day He Died

Art & Design – Yesterday I came across a slightly mysterious website - a collection of Polaroids, one per day, from March 31, 1979 through October 25, 1997. There's no author listed, no contact info, and no other indication as to where these came from. So, naturally, I started looking through the photos. I was stunned by what I found...

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Different & sad.....

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I don't think it's sad, rather, it's very happy. To record any special moments of one's daily life is a celebration of that life.

Here's hoping to even come close to doing the same with my own photography, I would love to do it as well.

Reminds me also of the movie Smoke, but at least it has wide variety of subject material, even if it was a resolve to take a minimum of one photo each day, including simply a photo of a piece of paper with the date on it....

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Here's a link to a site which explains a bit more about the photographer:

http://onlytheblogknowsbrooklyn.typepad.com/onl...

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A buddy at work told me about this guy 2-3 years ago . He had taken a picture of himself for six hundred days at that time . Some of the Art people found out and gave him a grant .

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many people on YouTube who have done that (of themselves), can't find anything close to 17yrs tho.

here's one of someone doing it for 3 years.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQxOu_VEghY

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This must be the guy he talked about . Thanx .

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Yeah, and it reminded me of the movie Smoke.

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I found it strangely touching and inspiring. Thanks for posting this cactushair.

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Leaves me speechless.

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gosh! When you reading this post, it is similar like you watching a movie! Really nice and very moving post. I almost started tearing at the end.. thank you a lot cactushair that is really very and very impressive..

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Very moving.

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A work of true art in its own right.

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The photo diary is a moving glimpse of an individual's personal history.

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That is AMAZING, and to be so personal yet somewhat anonymous, 17yrs...every day, unbelievable.

Thanks for sharing Cactushair

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It really gives you a unique perspective of diffrent stages of life..photo by photo...

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Of course double post again!

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very interesting story!

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