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.

Spectacles: A Memoir of Jewelry and Photography

By Stephen Albair

Publisher : Self Published

2020 | 106 pages

A Memoir told through photography and jewelry design by an artist obsessed with recasting found objects and first-person experiences.

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Requiem

By Kenro Izu

Publisher : Nazraeli Press

2020 | 16 pages

In 79 AD, the city of Pompeii in the south of Italy was destroyed, buried beneath volcanic ash when Mount Vesuvius erupted. At the time of its destruction, the population of Pompeii was estimated at 11,000 people. After the eruption, the city was lost for about 1,500 years until its rediscovery in the late 16th century. The objects that lay beneath the city had been preserved for centuries due to the lack of air and moisture. During the excavation, plaster was used to fill the voids in the compacted layers of ash that once held human bodies, enabling archaeologists to see the exact position a person was in at the moment of death. The original casts are kept in an archive within the Pompeii site and because of their sacredness and fragility, it is prohibited to move them to other locations. Second generation copies of the casts have since been made, and are loaned out to museums for exhibitions, both locally and internationally, but no individuals are allowed to borrow them. With the support of the Ambassador of Japan in Rome, the authority of Pompeii graciously made an exception, and granted permission for Kenro Izu to remove a selection of the copied casts in order to create photographic compositions at the Pompeii sites. In addition, the Pompeii authority has permitted Izu to photograph the original human casts in the archive building as 'portraits' of the people of ancient Pompeii. For the work of Requiem, Kenro Izu created an imaginary scene of sometime after 'the day', when lives were extinguished by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, but among the scattered dead, plants have started to grow once again. This huge volcanic eruption, almost two millennia ago, is as if a nuclear explosion were to happen today. This thought makes one fearful of such a possibility taking place, anytime now, to us. Requiem is limited to 500 numbered copies, each including a 5x7 inch original print that has been signed by the artist.

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Let the Sun Beheaded Be

By Gregory Halpern

Publisher : Aperture

2020 | 120 pages

In Let the Sun Beheaded Be, Gregory Halpern focuses on the Caribbean archipelago of Guadeloupe, an overseas region of France with a complicated and violent colonial past. The work resonates with Halpern's characteristic attention to the ways the details of a landscape and the people who inhabit it often reveal the undercurrents of local histories and experiences. Let the Sun Beheaded Be offers a visually striking depiction of place-as it has been worked on by the forces of nature, people, and events-as well as a thoughtful engagement with the complexities of photographing in foreign lands as an interloper. A text by curator and editor Cl�ment Ch�roux grapples with Guadeloupe's colonial past in relation to the French Revolution, Surrealism, and the Martinican poet Aim� C�saire, whose writing inspired the title of the book and much of the imagery itself. A conversation between Halpern and photographer and critic Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa delves into Halpern's process, personal history, and the politics of representation.

Let the Sun Beheaded Be was produced as part of Immersion, a program of the Fondation d'entreprise Herm�s, in partnership with the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson.

Copublished by Aperture and Fondation d'entreprise Herm�s

New York in Color, 1952-1962

By Ernst Haas

Publisher :

2020 | 208 pages

Ernst Haas's color works reveal the photographer's remarkable genius and remind us on every page why we love New York. When Haas moved from Vienna to New York City in 1951, he left behind a war-torn continent and a career producing black-and-white images. For Haas, the new medium of color photography was the only way to capture a city pulsing with energy and humanity. These images demonstrate Haas's tremendous virtuosity and confidence with Kodachrome film and the technical challenges of color printing. Unparalleled in their depth and richness of color, brimming with lyricism and dramatic tension, these images reveal a photographer at the height of his career.

SUPERSENSE turns your digital photos into real 20x24 Polaroids

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

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