In early April, Chuck Close photographed James Turrell, a contemporary of his, for the cover of last weekend's issue using a 20-by-24 Polaroid camera. You might wonder how he was able to do so, given that Polaroid declared bankruptcy in 2008 and no more Polaroid film is being made, much less 20-by-24 sheets of it. (The Fuji film and camera that says Polaroid on it today does not actually use Polaroid film.)
It turns out that John Reuter, who has been collaborating with Close for more than three decades (including on our shoot), stockpiled and put into cold storage a lot of Polaroid film back when it became apparent that the company was going to stop manufacturing it. Reuter told me that as soon as the unused film comes out of cold storage "it starts to catch up to its age." (Polaroid's internal testing indicates that used color film should last about 90 years in light. Kept in darkness, it should last twice as long.) No one knows when the black-and-white film will expire, but Reuter, who is the executive director of the 20X24 Studio, and his colleagues are amazed that it is in such good shape at this point, five years after he bought it. As of now, he still has approximately 450 sheets of black-and-white film and approximately 18,000 sheets of color film. For the shoot with Turrell, Close used six black-and-white and three color sheets of Polaroid.
Here are some iPhone photos of Close at work.
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