This week, a discussion around a documentary about Polaroid, called Time Zero, gets us wondering about objects versus process and whether there is more intrinsic value in the artifact or the content. We also look at a few “link-baity” news items around the value of photography as art. Carrie Mae Weems is our Photographer of the Week.

Links for this episode:

• Time Zero | The Last Year of Polaroid Film
  
• Instant: The Story of Polaroid
  
• Triumph the insult comic dog - bon jovi - Video Dailymotion
  
• Modern Art Was Used As a Torture Technique in Prison Cells During the Spanish Civil War | Open Culture
  
• Is Black and White Photography a Gimmick?
  
• Flat, soulless and stupid: why photographs don’t work in art galleries | Art and design | The Guardian
  
• Morning Edition: How Kodak's Shirley Cards Set Photography's Skin-Tone Standard - WNYC
  
• Bryan Adams' heartstopping images of wounded British soldiers to go on show at Somerset House - Home News - UK - The Independent
  
• On Taking Pictures - Community - Google+ Assignment: #horizon
  
• Carrie Mae Weems
  

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