Thanks to the commitment of Impossible, the producer of new analogue instant film material, the Vienna-based WestLicht Museum of Photography purchased the International Polaroid Collection.
WestLicht takes over 4,400 artworks from 800 artists (including Ansel Adams and Andy Warhol) and will exhibit a fine selection of these iconic images, combined with some new contemporary works shot on new Impossible instant film, from June 17, 2011.
WestLicht Museum owner, Peter Coeln, saved the Polaroid Collection which had been put on the market by the liquidators dealing with the assets of the insolvent company. For almost two years the future of the unique Polaroid collection was uncertain. This spectacular acquisition at the last moment secures the continued existence of the collection and presents it to a broad public for the first time.
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Image by Oliviero Toscani, Andy Warhol (1976). WestLict Collection.