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So I finally just pawed through forty-plus decades of pictures, from Kodak instamatic three-by-fives to iPhone four-by-sixes, and picked the ones that tell the story of my family, our loss, and how books helped all of us rediscover joy.
Nina Sankovitch: My First Book -- And My First Video Book Trailer Nina Sankovitch 2011
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So I finally just pawed through forty-plus decades of pictures, from Kodak instamatic three-by-fives to iPhone four-by-sixes, and picked the ones that tell the story of my family, our loss, and how books helped all of us rediscover joy.
Nina Sankovitch: My First Book -- And My First Video Book Trailer Nina Sankovitch 2011
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Farley started documenting her life at age eleven when she was given an instamatic camera on her birthday.
Holly Cara Price: Photojournalist Ronnie Farley Focuses the Lens on the Innate Strength of Women in Her Work Holly Cara Price 2012
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I took it on an instamatic camera (ah life before digital) when I was a teenager spending six months living in Sydney.
Archive 2008-09-01 Another Outspoken Female 2008
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Andra said ... love it too! i'm so excited to see what you've done with a little bit of original 80s seasoning. i'm enjoying the musical reminders too. thanks for sending me the original pic. you can really see the instamatic film colors. the metastory is so much more flavourful! thanks!
601 - a picture paints (not quite) a thousand words Another Outspoken Female 2008
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I took it on an instamatic camera (ah life before digital) when I was a teenager spending six months living in Sydney.
601 - a picture paints (not quite) a thousand words Another Outspoken Female 2008
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The development of the camcorder and the instamatic camera made it possible for anyone so inclined to produce porno in privacy at home.
Boing Boing 2007
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He has a special name for those who edge closer and closer to a bison for that amazing, once-in-a-lifetime shot, “instamatic injury.”
Lost In My Own Backyard (copy) ____Maggie 2007
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After my song was over my Dad took a photo with the instamatic camera.
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The constant, automatic, instamatic, systematic criticizing of Clinton is REALLY EXAGERATED and it is really getting old and I am beginning to think that it is going to BACKFIRE on the Obama camp (look at the very latest national polls).
Netroots Open Fire On Hillary For Agreeing To Debate On Fox 2009
treeseed commented on the word instamatic
Instamatic was the name of a long-running series of inexpensive, easy-to-load 126 and 110 cameras made by Kodak beginning in 1963. The Instamatic was immensely successful, introducing a generation to low-cost photography and spawning numerous imitators.
_Wikipedia
February 1, 2008
sonofgroucho commented on the word instamatic
The first camera I had was an instamatic! Here I am with it in its box.
February 1, 2008
treeseed commented on the word instamatic
What a wonderful photo, S of G! My first camera was a Brownie Starmite.
February 1, 2008
reesetee commented on the word instamatic
Little SoG! How cute. :-)
February 2, 2008