André Werner | polaroids

Polaroids | SX-70

My first ever instant photograph was a polaroid taken from a black-and-white television. Pictured was Geraldine Chaplin, crying. Since then I’ve worked with polaroids, mainly SX-70, sometimes as single images, sometimes combined in tryptichs. Some are shown solely as the originals while others are presented as blow-up photographic prints.

TV-BLUE (triptych) | SX70 polaroid André Werner, TV-BLUE (triptych), SX70 polaroid, mounted on polaroid cartridge, 1988  

Some Geishas | SX70 polaroids All ca. 1992, SX70 polaroids,10,7 cm × 8,8 cm  | 4,2″ x 3,5″ (image 7,9 cm × 7,9 cm | 3,1″ x 3,1″) mounted on SX70 polaroid cartridge.

Skin Deep, polaroid SX70 tryptich, ca.1988, 10,7 cm × 26,4cm | 4,2″ x 10,5″ (image 7,9 cm × 7,9 cm | 3,1″ x 3,1″)

Polaroid montages | SX70 All 1988, collages inside SX70 polaroids, 10,7 cm × 8,8 cm  | 4,2″ x 3,5″ (image 7,9 cm × 7,9 cm | 3,1″ x 3,1″)  

untitled (couple), polaroid SX 70, ca. 1993, 10,7 cm × 8,8 cm | 4,2″ x 3,5″ (image 7,9 cm × 7,9 cm | 3,1″ x 3,1″)

  All polaroid SX 70, 1986,  10,7 cm × 8,8 cm  | 4,2″ x 3,5″ (image 7,9 cm × 7,9 cm | 3,1″ x 3,1″) mounted on SX 70 polaroid cartridge.

untitled (two girls), polaroid SX 70 triptych, ca. 1991, 10,7 cm × 26,4 cm | 4,2″ x 10,5″ (image 7,9 cm × 7,9 cm | 3,1″ x 3,1″)

Love You, polaroid SX 70, ca. 1987, 10,7 cm × 8,8cm | 4,2″ x 3,5″ (image 7,9 cm × 7,9 cm | 3,1″ x 3,1″)

André Werner, untitled (hand cuffed), polaroid SX 70, 1986, 10,7 cm × 8,8 cm | 4,2″ x 3,5″ (image 7,9 cm × 7,9 cm | 3,1″ x 3,1″) mounted on SX70 polaroid cartridge.