Emulsional Problems 



SX-70 Time-Zero Polaroids
by Michael Dare

New York City
June, 1989

Celebrity Slideshow
Press START for a new picture every 10 seconds

 

The first thing you've got to know is that these are all very fast improvisations since the emulsion hardens quickly after the picture is snapped. I've got ten minutes, max, from taking the shot to messing it up, and once they're messed with, there's no going back.

Painters do quick sketches in charcoal or pencil, then erase, recompose, make corrections before filling in the color with oils. Make a mistake? Just paint over it until it's right.

Modern computer artists can achieve my effects using Power Goo and other graphics programs where they can work on the picture for hours to get it just right.

Normal photographers get to play with their negatives, making multiple prints until they get it right.

Not me. My positives are my negatives.

What I do is PHYSICAL to the actual Polaroid. I only get one shot at getting it right. 
 


 
Illustrated Stories



The Life and Death of Captain Preemo
or
Bob Woodward
vs.
John Belushi and me

Andy Kaufman's Last Performance
Featuring Peter Ivers, Harold Ramis, Chevy Chase, Lotus Weinstock, Lili Hayden, Robert Roll, and Cyndi Lauper

Tom Waits for No One But Me
A Night on the Town with Tom Waits, Rickie Lee Jones, Chuck E. Weiss, John Prine, and Dr. John

The Mysterious Publicist with the Bug up her Ass
My Visit to Politically Incorrect featuring Bill Maher, Jay Leno, Daryl Gates, and Tom Snyder

John C. Lilly
My Visit to Lilly's Isolation Tank on the Occasion of his 80th Birthday

Monty Python's First
Visit to America

Demi Goddess
From Daily Variety

The Red Hot Chili Peppers
The Early Years

How I Got Cast in Francis
Featuring Jessica Lange

My Trip to Disneyland
with Eugene Ionesco

My Best Birthday Present
Timothy Leary

Backstage with Baryshnikov
and Valda Setterfield
and John Sanborn 

Why I Turned Taylor Negron into a Carrothead

How to Write Like Tom Robbins

Brushes with Fame
Featuring Richard Dreyfuss
and Larraine Newman

My Best Friend
Lewis Arquette

The Legend of William Hjortsberg

Greta Scacchi Uses my Tool
No, not that one

What's Wrong
with Leonard Maltin
Being There 
with Hal Ashby

Porn Free
My adventures on the set of
a porn film

David Jove
Memorial

Michael Nesmith:
The Interactive Monkey
How I Saved Brian DePalma from Being Pelted with Rotten Eggs by Turning Him Into a Dickhead

The Last Time I Saw
Russ Meyer

Featuring John LaZar, David Gurian, Dolly Read, Charles Napier, Roger Ebert, Michael Blodgett, & Edy Williams.
 
Van Dyke's Advice
Featuring Van Dyke Parks,
Sally Parks, Tony Martin Jr., Harry Nilsson, & Jack Nicholson
 
Sour Grapes Obituary: How Karl Malden Ruined My Life
Featuring Emilio Estevez, Hugh Hefner, Ted Turner, Steve Martin, Whoopi Goldberg, Robin Williams, Clint Eastwood, Harry Dean Stanton, Doug Edwards, & Mikhail Baryshnikov.

Portraits with Interviews



Tracey Ullman
Interview Magazine 
Cover Story

Jonathan Demme
on
Stop Making Sense

John Carpenter
on
Starman

James Cameron
on 
The Abyss

Neil Jordan
on
The Company of Wolves

John Waters
on
Hairspray

Frank LaLoggia
on
Lady in White

Godfrey Reggio
on
Koyaanisqatsi and Powaqqatsi

Dean Stockwell
on
Married to the Mob

Jean-Jacques Annaud
on
The Bear

Man Bites Dogma
Robert Anton Wilson
on Politics, Religion, Drugs, and
Quantum Mechanics

How to work with a writer
the Carl Gottlieb way

It's got something to do with bricks.

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SX-70 Landscapes

 
Watercolors

 
Rubber Stamp Art

Hand-Colored Black-and-White Photos
 
How to Do What I Do

 
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