Chris Higgins
10 Years and 1 Day – A Decade in Polaroids
by Chris Higgins - December 17, 2009 - 3:06 PM

Artist Marc Tasman spent 10 years and 1 day taking a daily Polaroid, typically of himself, and has compiled the resulting pictures into a video (below). Watch his beard grow and shrink, his hair get longer and shorter, his glasses change styles, and so on, over the course of 4,600+ Polaroid photos. (Although the project only lasted 3,654 consecutive days, he ended up with over 4,600 images, so I assume he sometimes did multiple shots per day.)

(Via Gimundo.)

See also: He Took a Polaroid Every Day, Until the Day He Died, a roughly 18-year Polaroid project I discovered last year.

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Comments (9)

  1. That’s so very uninteresting. First!

    posted by ElSmiley on 12-17-2009 at 3:36 pm

  2. Man that alot of photos.

    posted by Kari on 12-17-2009 at 3:48 pm

  3. I for one never get tired of this sort of video. It’s probably got a little bit to do with voyeurism – maybe I like seeing into other people’s lives. But I also really just admire the commitment to a project like this – that’s a lot of photos! And polaroids, no less. Nice touch.

    posted by Steve C on 12-17-2009 at 4:17 pm

  4. Polaroids just look so cool to me. Pictures from any funky old camera, really. I’ve been jonesing for a Holga for a while now.

    One of Jandek’s mellower songs would not have been out of place as a soundtrack here, really.

    I thought I noticed a couple “interesting” pictures in there. Dude is not shy, apparently.

    posted by clint on 12-17-2009 at 4:41 pm

  5. It’s worth noting that, within my memory, integrated Polaroid film packs never sold for less than $1 per shot. Toward the end, it was closer to $1.80. I think there have been feature films that cost less than $4,600 to shoot.

    posted by Dave on 12-17-2009 at 5:39 pm

  6. i couldn’t watch it…too frenetic…

    posted by donner on 12-18-2009 at 12:34 am

  7. I like how towards the end he was smiling in every shot. Hope that means he got happier toward the end of the decade!

    posted by BB on 12-18-2009 at 4:44 am

  8. I really want to like it. But I don’t.

    posted by Jen Sweeney on 12-18-2009 at 8:34 am

  9. Did it look like some of them were him naked? Maybe he was just in underwear and I couldn’t catch it before the picture was gone.

    posted by Tricia on 12-18-2009 at 11:52 am

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