A Polaroid every day for 17 years

[andersju]

I hope this hasn't been posted already (search didn't yield any results).

Jamie Livingston, a "New York-based photographer, film-maker and circus performer" (Wikipedia), took a Polaroid picture every day for 17 years right up until the day he died from cancer at 41 in 1997.

"Livingston's 'Polaroid a Day' photographic diary started at Bertelsmann Campus Center at Bard College and though some photos have gone missing from the collection, 6,697 Polaroids remain. The collection, dated in sequence, has been organized by his friends Hugh Crawford and Betsy Reid into an exhibit at Bard College called "JAMIE LIVINGSTON. PHOTO OF THE DAY: 1979-1997", which opened in 2007."

Someone else's summary: http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/15131

The actual pictures (all of them): http://photooftheday.hughcrawford.com/

I think they are quite moving.

 

[Tuolumne]

When my daughter was born in 1985 I commenced a project to take one B&W photo of her every day. That project came to an abrupt end on the 37th day when I accidentally opened the camera and exposed the film. (Another reason to shoot digital? 🙂) It also seemed to me at the time to not augur well for such an undertaking - "The Gods Must Be Angry". So I gave it up. Not that I haven't taken the equivalent number of pictures since then as if I had continued the one-pic-per-day project, but they were taken many at a time, not one per day. I've been thinking about starting this project again, especially since I recently became a grandfather - her child. Perhaps the Furies will smile more widely on such a DIGITAL undertaking.

/T