The Camera Does the Rest

In this fascinating book, Peter Buse explores the cultural phenomena around Polaroid, the progenitors of the radical changes that digital cameras, smart phones, the internet, and social media would bring to photography.

Buse makes the magic of the Polaroid moment vivid for those readers for whom that era is now a faint memory and for those readers too young to have experienced it

Contents

List of Illustrations
Preface
Introduction

1. Just a Toy
2. Intimate, One of a Kind
3. Polaroid and Digital
4. Polaroid Attractions
5. Polaroid Values
6. Just for Snapshots?

Conclusion
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index