SUPERSENSE turns your digital photos into real 20x24 Polaroids

Worldwide and easy access to 20x24 Polaroid technology is now available

The Vienna-based SUPERSENSE, a manufactory for analog sensations, is now making 20x24 Polaroid photography available to a worldwide audience. So far, access to this legendary form of large format instant photography has been place-bound to accomplished experts such as at the 20x24 Studio in NYC, the 20x24 Studio West in San Francisco or Jan Hnizdo in Prague.

At the click of a mouse everybody can now expose personal, digital images with the legendary 20x24 camera. Customers simply send their digital photographs to SUPERSENSE, where one of the seven worldwide available 20x24 camera giants is located. Through a hand-build tool invented by Henny Waanders, a former Polaroid camera developer, the SUPERSENSE 20x24 experts expose digital images from an iPad Mini's retina display through the 20x24 camera onto 20x24 film. Not being a digital print-service but a unique analog exposure-service on instant film, the results depend on a highly complex chemical reaction, being neither predictable nor reproducible.

As the only place on earth SUPERSENSE transforms digital images into real high quality 20x24 instant photographs. Upon appointment, customers can even watch the transformation of their digital photos via the SUPERSENSE livestream. A 20x24 Online Exposure costs EUR 250,-. A smaller large film format of 8x10 is also being offered as an Online Exposure and costs EUR 30,-. 20x24 photos are shipped from Vienna in an art edition roll, 8x10 photos in a handmade 8x10 folder.

ABOUT SUPERSENSE

SUPERSENSE is a warm and sparkling home for everything analog and a cabinet of wonder. Aiming to touch, confuse and inspire its visitors, this unique place offers a marketplace for carefully picked products and inventions from the best hand crafters, researchers and visionaries from all over the world. It's a bar, a vinyl recording studio, an analog photo studio, a letterpress printery and a comibination of finest analog things.

The lush interior arises from the Venetian Palazzo that houses SUPERSENSE. This unique historic landmark was built in 1898 by Maximilian Haas with the help of architect Carl Caufal. With the caring guidance from Yvonne and Robin (Voldaan Design) SUPERSENSE carefully converted the fondly renovated (2006-2013), gold plated, ground floor into a magic cabinet of wonders which opened in 2013.

ABOUT FLORIAN KAPS

Florian Kaps got his senses hooked on „the real things in 2001 when he first dived into the magic of analog photography as leading manager of the Lomographic Society. Being attracted by the exercise of running into the opposite direction since his childhood, he reacted to the digital revolution by founding The Impossible Project in 2009, keeping Polaroid photography alive.

The opening of SUPERSENSE in 2014 with his partners Nina Ugrinovich and Andreas Eduard Hoeller made another one of Florian's dreams come true - a perfect analog delicatessen store, dedicated to analog things with an authentic story and passionate artisans behind. With lots of care and love Florian is now sourcing, selecting and presenting analog treasures that touch all senses.

Ralph Gibson: Secret of Light

By Ralph Gibson

Publisher : Kehrer Verlag

2023 | 240 pages

Ralph Gibson (b. 1939) is one of the most interesting and versatile photographers of our time. His great international reputation is based on his exceptional work, which is exhibited and collected by leading museums around the world, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, the Maison Européenne de la Photographie in Paris and the Fotomuseum Winterthur in Switzerland. The publication accompanying the exhibition Ralph Gibson. Secret of Light brings together key series from the F. C. Gundlach Collection, Hamburg, as well as the photographer’s collection and describes his artistic development from the 1960s to the present. Gibson tirelessly explores and breaks new ground in photography. The playful use and design with light are an essential part of his unmistakable signature, which is reflected in his multi-layered and complex oeuvre.

All About Ralph Gibson

Eye Mama: Poetic Truths of Home and Motherhood

By Karni Arieli and photographers worldwide

Publisher : Teneues

2023 | 224 pages

The Eye Mama book is a photographic portfolio showcasing the mama narrative and the mama gaze, what female and non-binary photographers see when they look at, and into the home.
Based on the Eye Mama Project, a photography platform sharing a curated feed by photographers worldwide who identify as mamas, the Eye Mama book brings together more than 150 images to render what is so often invisible―caregiving, mothering, family and the post-motherhood self― visible.
Eye mama was created by BAFTA-nominated filmmaker and photographer Karni Arieli during the pandemic, when everyone around the world was in lockdown and spending more time in the home, often consumed by caregiving. The visual movement centres around the “mama gaze”, an introspective look at home and care by female and non-binary visual artists.
This iconic book of photographs brings together the images from this movement, experiencing the light and dark of care and parenthood, the beauty of close-up details, love and hardship, and most importantly, the personal poetic truths of these mamas and artists.

Dafydd Jones: England: The Last Hurrah

By Dafydd Jones:

Publisher : Acc Art Books

2023 | 144 pages

Throughout the 1980s, award-winning photographer Dafydd Jones was granted access to some of England's most exclusive upper-class events. Now, the author of Oxford: The Last Hurrah presents this irreverent and intimate portrait of birthday parties and charity balls, Eton picnics and private school celebrations.
With the crack of a hunting rifle and a spray of champagne, these photos give an almost cinematic account of high-society England at its most riotous and its most vulnerable. Against the backdrop of Thatcher's Britain, globalization, the Falklands War, rising stocks and dwindling inherited fortunes, Jones reveals the inner lives of the established elite as they party long into the night-time of their fading world.

Arthur Tress: Rambles, Dreams, and Shadows

By Arthur Tress

Publisher : J. Paul Getty Museum

2023 | 264 pages

This richly illustrated volume is the first critical look at the early career of Arthur Tress, a key proponent of magical realism and staged photography.
Arthur Tress (b. 1940) is a singular figure in the landscape of postwar American photography. His seminal series, The Dream Collector, depicts Tress’s interests in dreams, nightmares, fantasies, and the unconscious and established him as one of the foremost proponents of magical realism at a time when few others were doing staged photography.
This volume presents the first critical look at Tress’s early career, contextualizing the highly imaginative, fantastic work he became known for while also examining his other interrelated series: Appalachia: People and Places; Open Space in the Inner City; Shadow; and Theater of the Mind. James A. Ganz, Mazie M. Harris, and Paul Martineau plumb Tress’s work and archives, studying ephemera, personal correspondence, unpublished notes, diaries, contact sheets, and more to uncover how he went from earning his living as a social documentarian in Appalachia to producing surreal work of “imaginative fiction.” This abundantly illustrated volume imparts a fuller understanding of Tress’s career and the New York photographic scene of the 1960s and 1970s.
This volume is published to accompany an exhibition on view at the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center from October 31, 2023, to February 18, 2024.

SUPERSENSE turns your digital photos into real 20x24 Polaroids

Worldwide and easy access to 20x24 Polaroid technology is now available

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