Vintage 1970s Polaroid Big Shot Instant Portrait Land Camera – Andy Warhol

The shutter fires when I press the red lever.

Timer spins somewhat but not all the way and doesn’t click the shutter so that’s not functional

The camera appears to be in very good condition. There are a couple of scratch marks on it, which you can see in the pictures.

It is approx. 10" long x 6" wide.

I do not have film to test the camera so it is being sold untested and "as-is", for display, parts or repair, but I'm hopeful that it actually works.

This camera was made popular by Andy Warhol:

Before some artists make a final version of an artwork, they make preparatory sketches. Instead, Warhol used the Polaroids shot with the Big Shot camera as his preparatory photographs for paintings. Introduced to the market by the Polaroid company in 1971, the Big Shot camera was relatively inexpensive at $19.95 apiece. It was relatively easy to use, marketed to the everyday person with few buttons or complicated settings. Despite its simplicity and a heavy marketing campaign by Polaroid, the camera did not sell well to the general public. However, it became Warhol’s favorite camera. He made a deal with Polaroid that they would supply him parts and new cameras every so often. He used the camera for a long time after it was discontinued by the company.

The name of the camera, Big Shot, not only references the name of the camera but also the type of people who were photographed using it, “big shots,” including Dolly Parton, Neil Sedaka, Diane von Furstenberg and his own art dealer Irving Blum, who showed Warhol’s "Campbell’s Soup Can" series for the first time.

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