Via Camera Notes, which also just tipped me off to the current struggle over protecting the Polaroid Collection.
“Comprising somewhere between 16,000 and 24,000 images made with Polaroid cameras and films between 1948 and 2004, the collection constitutes a unique and irreplaceable repository of creative work. Selling it off piecemeal (Sotheby’s is the designated auction house) will end its function as a resource for artists and scholars doing research on Polaroid as a distinctive medium of photography. It will also terminate its function as a source of material for books and exhibitions of work done with these tools and materials.”
More on this unsettling, currently unfolding, series of events.
