Instant Talent: Instant Summer, Day by Day -- 61

I suppose it had to happen. My selection for this slot must be on vacation. With your indulgence I'll pick up the slack with some examples of what the original Polaroid cameras and film produced in the early years of instant photography.
The author, Harold Irving Smith, circa 1951

This is an unretouched or Photoshopped scan of my dear mentor, portrait painter Harold Irving Smith, with whom I studied in the period directly after World War II, 1946 through 1949. The camera I used was an original Polaroid Land Camera Model 95, purchased at the Jordan Marsh department store in Boston, where it was introduced. It used orthochromatic roll film with die cut deckle edges, precursor of the later panchromatic film Type 42. The streak marks indicate just how sloppy I was in applying the coater that was packaged in every roll of film. 

Please keep in mind the time frame involved here. This was taken probably within two years of the introduction of Polaroid instant photography.
We'll trace this development in later uploads. Click on image to enlarge it.