John Coplans, on the other hand, chose Type 55 film (which yields a black-and-white positive and negative) in the 1980s to record his own stolid nude body in interlocking blocks of hairy flesh, self-portraits that owe something to Henry Moore and Philip Guston.

WSJ: The Polaroid SX-70 as Sexy Tech | Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center | By Richard B. Woodward