Jamie’s photos at an exhibition at Bard College, in 2007 taken by Tom Boettcher

Jamie Livingston started to shoot a Polaroid a day when he was a Senior at Bard Collge in 1979.  He is now deceased, as documented in his last photo from 1997 (the year I graduated from Bard).  However, each image is documented on his site.  I also studied photography at Bard, where I even convinced the head of the department Stephen Shore to let me have a tutorial in Polaroid photography for the full college credit of a regular photo class.  It was an expensive medium, but the sweet thrill of seeing your image immediately made it all worth while.  Now that I carry a digital camera I have almost forgotten the sheer bliss of that magic moment of watching a photo develop before my eyes. Go get lost in his lush visual diary.

Jamie Livingston’s polaroids: http://photooftheday.hughcrawford.com