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Polaroids

07.03.2025 to 17.08.2025
Museum für Fotografie

Polaroid technology revolutionised photography. Anyone who has ever used this type of camera will never forget the smell of the developing emulsion and fascination with the instant image. Like so many others, Helmut Newtown loved photographing with a Polaroid camera. He began using the technique extensively in the 1970s, particularly during his fashion shoots. As Newton once recounted, this practice resulted from the impatient desire to immediately know how the setting would look as an image.

In this context a Polaroid corresponds to a sketch of an idea and allows for checking the specific lighting situation and image composition. At the same time, Polaroid photographs have great appeal for many art photographers, particularly because of their object-like quality and the possibility of using them experimentally.

In this group exhibition, Newton’s Polaroids are complemented by the works of numerous colleagues, including Pola Sieverding, Maurizio Galimberti, Sheila Metzner, Charles Johnstone and Marike Schuurman. It brings together the various approaches to using the Polaroid technology in a wide range of formats, each as a group of works by the selected photographers.


A special exhibition by the Helmut Newton Foundation at the Museum für Fotografie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin.

Helmut Newton Stiftung

Jebensstraße 2
10623 Berlin

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