Tag: Louis Mendes

An Old-Fashioned Camera in a Digital Age – NYTimes.com

A Camera and an Eye, Both One of a Kind

In an age of digital imagery, one man still earns a living roaming the streets with a vintage camera grafted onto a Polaroid back.

Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/03/nyregion/03polaroid.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

In his hands. Louis Mendes works the same crowds — and parades, graduations and concerts — cradling like a piece of sculpture a vintage Speed Graphic camera outfitted with two flash units and a Polaroid back.

January 3, 2010