On some level, it’s comforting to know that people 45 years ago were just as much into documenting themselves as we are now. Their environs, their party shenanigans, their fucking.
Robert E. Jackson’s exhibition of his collection of Polaroids at Bellevue Arts Museum proves it. Cocurated with museum executive director and chief curator Benedict Heywood, Polaroids: Personal, Private, Painterly is a curious and deeply interesting look into the candid lives of others.
