Hand-altered Polaroid SX-70 photographs

Highlights from twenty-seven years of hand-altered Polaroid SX-70 one-of-a-kind images from Paris, NYC, London, Venice Italy, Hawaii, the Caribbean, and Los Angeles. Prints of the images are available by commissioned order. A note on hand altering Polaroid SX-70: 1. the image before alteration must be an image that is a good image like it could stand alone as an interesting visual. 2. I altered the image with various tools using different tools for each part of the photograph like say skies and clouds are treated differently than other parts. The tools were styluses with round heads of different sizes used in the days of press on lettering 3. the image area of the Polariods is only 3in x 3 1/8 in requiring very very very intense concentration on my part to successfully alter the image. 4. keeping the image warm was very important to keep it pliable. 4. I would most often find a hot water source prior to shooting 5. I used baby hot water bottles, wrapped in a space blanket in a small igloo ice chest placing the Polaroid between the hot water bottles. 6. an alternative technique was disposable hand warmers inside a 4x5 film box 7. I would wait about ten minutes before attempting alteration to allow the film to fully develop and get warm 8. Alteration times varied from a few minutes of work to over a half hour. 8. The number of Polaroids I shot depends upon the subject. It could only be one as in an unfolding and quickly changing street scene or many under the controlled setting of a studio shoot like I did for nudes series. email michaelgoing@icloud.com