Fuck I’m clever.

Stock up now because by year’s end Polaroids will be a thing of the past. Like flash cubes and film discs and those large format instant cameras that we pretended were boats because they stopped making film for those before we were born but our grandparents decided that their old junk belonged in the toybox.

Certain drugstores and 1 hour photo huts in my hometown wouldn’t let you keep prints of YOUR photos that contained nudity or “questionable” content. You used to have to rely on Polaroids to help you remember what that stripper that gave you the herps looked like. Now you can snap all of the digital photos that your memory card can hold and print off near-perfect photos at home. You dirty bastard.

Coincidentally while I was looking for a photo of the Polaroid 1000 that my grandma had, I came across this flickr of Stripper audition photos from the 60s & 70s. It’s actually some Classy Stuff (mostly clothed).

Its just not the same anymore.

These were either done with a stencil and a vacuum or an empty tattoo needle (i’m guessing vacuum). Either way I think the concept is rad. These images come from the Skin series of photographer Ariana Page Russell. The image on the left is what led me to the website, a pattern of lace embossed on the skin. Its like skin wallpaper or an accessory that you don’t take off… until it heals.