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Polaroid Transfers are an
"alternative" photographic process which combines
qualities of a photograph and a painting. The process softens colors
and details without losing sharpness, and the irregularity of the
borders ensures that no two transfers are exactly the same.
The images on this web site are called Polaroid Image Transfers. There are other means of manipulating an image on Polaroid film, Emulsion Transfer and SX-70. Here's a great site put together by Marek Uliasz with lots of information and artists. Polaroid Image Transfers are made by placing a color transparency (slide) in an enlarger and exposing a sheet of 4" x 5" Polaroid film. After the film is exposed, it is pulled through rollers which break a chemical packet and start the development process. For a normal Polaroid picture, the negative (which contains the color dyes) is kept sandwiched with the plastic base for several minutes, then peeled apart to leave the image entirely on the plastic base. For a transfer, the negative is peeled off after a short time and placed face-down on a damp piece of watercolor paper. The damp paper takes the dyes from the negative, and the result is the Polaroid Transfer. Below: an example Polaroid negative and print (note that the negative was used for a transfer so most of the color dyes went to the transfer, leaving the Polaroid print somewhat undeveloped). |
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