Polagraphy
Polagraphy refers to images and other photo products that are created on the basis of instant cameras, especially Polaroid .
History and practice
The term polagraphy came up around 1980 when photographers began manipulating Polaroid SX-70 images in a variety of ways after they were developed. This includes scratching, painting and separating the image material in order to influence the chemical process during development. Other techniques are emulsion lifting and the image transfer process with release films from Polaroid. The term is made up of Pola based on the company product Polaroid and Graphie .
Related term
An alternative polagraphy term already existed in socialist Eastern Europe in the 1960s, cf. Basics of Heyrovsky, Jaroslav u. a., Akademie-Verlag Berlin 1965. Similar to the work Polagraphische Analyze by Tatjana Aleksandorvna Krjukova, Tatjana V. Arefera and Sofija Ilinicna Sinjakova, this work deals with a term from electrochemistry that is no longer in use today.