A Polaroid a Day
Jamie Livingston (1956-1997) documented his life by taking a Polaroid every day for 18 years, including the day he died in 1997.
His project seems to have captured the hearts of tens of thousands of people on the Internet. On May 21, Mental Floss ran a story by Chris Higgens about his discovery of Jamie's website leading to the an overload on the server and bringing the site down. It has since been reborn here.
After Livingston’s death, his friends Hugh Crawford and Betsy Reid put together a public exhibit and website using the photos and called it PHOTO OF THE DAY: 1979-1997, 6,697 Polaroids, dated in sequence. More about the project can be found here. All the photographs were added to a wall for the exhibit and it took up a 7 x 120 foot space.
This is a remarkable record of a man's life that documents not only his everyday moments but his illness and ultimate death.
His project seems to have captured the hearts of tens of thousands of people on the Internet. On May 21, Mental Floss ran a story by Chris Higgens about his discovery of Jamie's website leading to the an overload on the server and bringing the site down. It has since been reborn here.
After Livingston’s death, his friends Hugh Crawford and Betsy Reid put together a public exhibit and website using the photos and called it PHOTO OF THE DAY: 1979-1997, 6,697 Polaroids, dated in sequence. More about the project can be found here. All the photographs were added to a wall for the exhibit and it took up a 7 x 120 foot space.
This is a remarkable record of a man's life that documents not only his everyday moments but his illness and ultimate death.
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