Jamie Livingston

Jamie Livingston (October 25 1956 - October 25 1997) was a New York-based photographer, film-maker and circus performer. Between March 31, 1979 and October 25, 1997, the day of his death, he took a single picture nearly every day with a Polaroid camera. [cite web | url = http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,361159,00.html | title = Daily Polaroids Detail Last 18 Years of NYC Man's Life | publisher = Fox News | date = 2008-05-31 | accessdate = 2008-06-24] There are a handful of days that he did not take a picture. [cite web | url = http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/15131 | title=mentalfloss.com | accessdate = 2008-08-21]

Livingston's 'Polaroid a Day' photographic diary started at Bard College and though some photos have gone missing from the collection, 6,697 Polaroids remain. The collection, dated in sequence, has been organized by his friends Hugh Crawford and Betsy Reid into an exhibit at the Bertelsmann Campus Center at Bard College called "JAMIE LIVINGSTON. PHOTO OF THE DAY: 1979-1997", which opened in 2007.cite web|title=Photo of the Day, by Bard Alumnus Jamie Livingston On View in October|url=http://www.bard.edu/news/releases/pr/fstory.php?id=1298|date=2007-09-13|work=Bard College Press Release|accessdate=2008-05-22]

Biography

Livingston was a member of the musical, percussionist circus troupe Janus Circus from Bard College. He also worked as a cinematographer and editor of music videos for MTV, as well as working on advertisements with Nike. cite web|title=Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn: Jamie Livingston|author=Crawford, Louise|url=http://onlytheblogknowsbrooklyn.typepad.com/only_the_blog_knows_brook/jamie_livingston/index.html|accessdate=2008-05-22]

Livingston's Polaroid a Day charted his experiences with cancer, and his subsequent engagement and marriage. His photographs in and out of hospital continued up until the day of his death.cite news|title=He Took a Polaroid Every Day, Until He Died|url=http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/15131|author=Higgins, Chris|publisher=mental_floss|date=2008-05-21|accessdate=2008-05-22]

References

External links

* [http://photooftheday.hughcrawford.com/ Polaroid a Day website]
* [http://www.dipity.com/user/jamielivingston/timeline/personal/flip Jamie Livingston Photo Flipbook]
* [http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/15131 He Took a Polaroid Every Day, Until He Died] , mental_floss article.
* [http://onlytheblogknowsbrooklyn.typepad.com/only_the_blog_knows_brook/jamie_livingston/index.html Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn: Jamie Livingston]
* [http://www.cbc.ca/spark/blog/2008/06/episode_42_june_18_21.html Interview of Chris Higgins and Hugh Crawford] by Nora Young for Spark on CBC Radio One.