This is the remarkable story of Jamie Livingston, who in 1979 while studying at Bard College bought a Polaroid camera. Upon realising that he was taking about one photo each day, he made a point of continuing to do so until finally succumbing to cancer in 1997 on his 41st birthday.
In order to keep the project alive, his friends Hugh Crawford and Betsy Reid digitally photographed the Polaroid’s and reproduced them for an exhibition at Bard. The photos have also been loaded onto a website so that Jamie’s 18 year journey can be experienced in its entirety.
It is a stunning and very moving account of a man’s life and death.
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