Polaroids, Bedsheets and Backdrops

It was not the most sophisticated setup: a painted sheet, a Polaroid camera. But a very brief trend in New York street photography produced a series of quirky portraits, some of which are published in Sunday’s Metropolitan section.

via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/27/a-singular-moment-in-new-york-street-portraiture/

The backdrops, to exercise the imagination slightly, were an urban version of medieval unicorn tapestries, evoking icons like gleaming BMW’s or wads of $1,000 bills accompanied by slogans like  “Living Large” or “I Wanna Sex You Up.”