Exhibitions

Exhibitions from the Polaroid Collection travel to museums, galleries and educational institutions around the world.

Here we present a series of exhibitions, exploring an array of ideas, techniques, interests and personal visions.

Anna Tomczak makes beautiful photograph that are heavily layered with ideas, personal histories, remembrances and emotion. She uses bits of pottery, fragments of glass, tiny animal skeletons and an abundance of exotic flowers in her assemblages to be photographed. Take a look.

What does the game “Twenty Questions” have to do with Spectra photography? The 18th Street Art Center knows. Take a look.

Ansel Adams rigorously tested new Polaroid cameras and films as a consultant to Polaroid for 35 years. More than 50 gem-like Polaroid photographs, resulting from this experimentation, and many of his iconic images of the American West are on view at the Colorado Springs Fine Art Center through 24 October, 2004. Sample a taste of this stunning work in the exhibition, Ansel Adams: Photographs from the Polaroid Collections.

To celebrate its 25th anniversary, Denmark's Galleri Image selected photographs from the Polaroid Collections that show some of the creative ways photographers use instant films. A special breed, these artists think nothing of stabbing the film with pins, splashing ink or paint across the film's surface, sticking flowers, cutouts and string on film…or even popping prints into a toaster. To see the results of these cool ideas, take a look at Counter Clockwise: Photographs from the Polaroid Collections!

Located in an 1863 tenement building in Manhattan, the Lower East Side
Tenement Museum represents the first effort to preserve a tenement and to present the life and times of America's immigrant, urban pioneers. Four artists--John Reuter, Klaus Schnitzer, Robert Sennhauser and Harvey Stein--documented and commemorated the place and the people that had once inhabited this space.

For more than 20 years, Boston-based photographer Vaughn Sills chronicled the lives of the Toole family in rural Georgia. Here is a selection from her exhibition, "One Family," that is currently touring the U.S.

Fifty years ago, the world's first instant cameras and film were sold. To commemorate the anniversary, Polaroid 50: Art and Technology -- an exhibition from the Polaroid Collection--tracks technical innovations and changing artistic techniques and times. A selection from this traveling show is displayed here.

To find Polaroid exhibitions displayed in museums please see our 20x24 Event and Exhibitions Calendar.