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\"Christine's

Photo: “Christine’s neck” – Impossible Silver Shade instant film\u00a0
\u00a9 Marco Ristuccia<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n

Since I started playing around with the new\u00a0Impossible Project<\/em><\/a> polaroid-like instant films, I had always incoherent, often disappointing results. By “disappointing” I mean that the shots I got barely matched the subject’s image depicted in my mind.<\/p>\n

And this time it’s not a problem of getting used to and mind-previewing this particular film characterization. I think mostly it is because the inherent instability of the Impossible<\/em> chemicals produces unpredictable effects we can’t keep under control. I must admit however that I still didn’t try their very latest films.<\/p>\n

By the way, there are people who like the mystery and surprise of the results, and sometimes this sort of fatalism really contributes in adding value to the work. Put in a philosophical way, we could even think of this as a manifestation of the so-called\u00a0“technological\u00a0unconscious”, theorized by Franco Vaccari<\/em> and others, who states that the Camera itself (and the Film) has an “own intent” to pursue and that it’s up to the photographer, reduced to a mere “operator”, to discover by attempts the full combinatory complexity of the potential results.<\/p>\n

When developing a project I usually prefer to have more control on what I get in terms of image style and result’s reproducibility. Call me a “vintage guy” but I still don’t like those projects lacking a coherent aspect in terms of\u00a0aesthetic, format and size.<\/p>\n

But sometimes, like with a good bottle of red wine, time and unpredictability make their wizardry. After a pair of years I incidentally picked up from my drawer a bunch of Impossible<\/em> instant photographs, which I considered failed\u00a0experiments. The passage of time has changed them just like it does with our lives. Now they are somehow more mature and\u00a0fascinating, just like a beautiful middle-aged woman whose face and eyes has been signed with interesting wrinkles.<\/p>\n

One in particular caught my attention: it portrays the neck of my woman. The warm color shift and the perfect localization of a little “stars” constellation completely changed the atmosphere and really made the Impossible magic!<\/p>\n

P.S.
\nI’m not in any business relationship with the Impossible Project<\/a>. In this post I’m only expressing my personal opinions on their products. I published the link to their site for the sake of completeness.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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