Nine Polaroids, Champlain Valley Fair, Essex, VT, 2007
© Shane Lavalette
Last Spring I received a wonderful gift from Norman Beierle and Hester Keijser (also known as Mrs. Deane). The gift was a beautiful leporello from their private collection that included “12 different fifo quality photos” of Bad Homburg, a well known spa on the Taunus in Germany. See a few of those images here.
Along with the leporello, they also sent me a pack of Polaroid Polapan 100 Type 664 film. Brilliant! It was a while before I used it, but one day in August I took out the ol’ Hasselblad and shot the film at the fair that happens every summer in my home town in Vermont.
It was such a great feeling to make images that are one of a kind, to see them appear before my eyes and somehow very soothing to look at things in black and white. Shooting the Polaroids inspired me to also use some black and white film at the fair. Those images will be up on my website as a new series very soon.
To show my gratitude to Norman and Hester, I thought I’d share the Polaroids here. If you’re counting, you’ll notice there should be one more frame in the pack. I took the first shot of my little cousin standing in the morning sunlight on the front lawn of my mother’s house.
If you’d like, you can view the ones above a little bit larger.
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[...] if you’re working in a larger format). Here’s that last black and white Polaroid that I mentioned, from the pack of Polapan 100 Type 664 film that Mrs. Deane sent [...]