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Stan Calderwood and me

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As the great designer Will Burtin, an early art director of Fortune magazine said, it would not have been possible to create such monumental work as he did for Container Corporation of America without the total support and cooperation of Walter Paepke, president of CCA. Click on image to enlarge photo.

Stan Calderwood made my work a breeze. He was the in-house power that caused all the good things that happened for Polaroid in its golden years. This is Stan posing above for my Hasselblad SuperWide shot in his spare and functional office in the old factory building at 119 Windsor Street that served as home for Polaroid's sales and advertising troops.

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Stan and me, enjoying some jovial banter at an office function that involved some bubbly.

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