“My Polaroid Selfies 1981 Book 1 is a lovely little book that mixes both Polaroid​ production history and Camber Porter's biographical content brilliantly. It gave such an interesting spin on a topic, manufacturing and production, that I usually find boring. I recommend this book and author.” 

—Georgia Grantham, Media Reviewer

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Polaroid Selfie #4

Melinda Camber Porter purchased a Polaroid camera in 1981. She was fascinated by the fact one was able to get instant feedback with a Polaroid camera and not wait days or weeks to get one’s traditional photography developed. She could now take pictures of herself and see if it showed what she was thinking. Today, of course, we call this a ‘Selfie.’

My Polaroid Selfies 1981 now available in hardcover and ebook at Amazon

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Polaroid Selfie #3

Melinda Camber Porter purchased a Polaroid camera in 1981. She was fascinated by the fact one was able to get instant feedback with a Polaroid camera and not wait days or weeks to get one’s traditional photography developed. She could now take pictures of herself and see if it showed what she was thinking. Today, of course, we call this a ‘Selfie.’

My Polaroid Selfies 1981 now available in hardcover and ebook at Amazon

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Polaroid Selfie #2

Melinda Camber Porter purchased a Polaroid camera in 1981. She was fascinated by the fact one was able to get instant feedback with a Polaroid camera and not wait days or weeks to get one’s traditional photography developed. She could now take pictures of herself and see if it showed what she was thinking. Today, of course, we call this a ‘Selfie.’

My Polaroid Selfies 1981 now available in hardcover and ebook at Amazon

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Happy Birthday Eugenio Montale

"Direct statement is contrary to the nature of poetry,” Eugenio Montale tells Melinda Camber Porter during her 1976 interview with him for The Times of London, “…after all, why would one write poetry if it was merely to make oneself understood?"

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Melinda Camber Porter in Conversation 

with Eugenio Montale

now available in hardcover and Kindle ebook editions on Amazon

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Lichtenstein at Tate Liverpool

Tate Liverpool Presents Roy Lichtenstein in Focus

Explore more than 20 works charting Roy Lichtenstein’s (1923–1997) early interest in landscape to his iconic pop paintings influenced by comic strips and advertising imagery. The free display also presents Lichtenstein’s three-screen installation, his only work with film, which was made after spending two weeks at Universal Studios in 1969.

A conversation between Roy Lichtenstein (1923-1997) and Melinda Camber Porter (1953- 2008) took place on December 18, 1983, when Roy Lichtenstein’s Greene Street Mural drew crowds to Leo Castelli’s landmark SoHo Greene Street Gallery in downtown New York. Roy Lichtenstein describes to Melinda Camber Porter the many influences on his art from the Renaissance painters to Japanese art in terms of his brush strokes, perspective, and styles. 

The conversation, published as Melinda Camber Porter in Conversation with Roy Lichtenstein, is now available on Amazon in both hardcover and ebook.

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Polaroid Selfie #1

Melinda Camber Porter purchased a Polaroid camera in 1981. She was fascinated by the fact one was able to get instant feedback with a Polaroid camera and not wait days or weeks to get one’s traditional photography developed. She could now take pictures of herself and see if it showed what she was thinking. Today, of course, we call this a ‘Selfie.’

My Polaroid Selfies 1981 now available in hardcover and ebook at Amazon

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New Book by Melinda Camber Porter Available Now

New from Blake Press: Melinda Camber Porter in Conversation with Joyce Carol Oates is now available in hardcover and as Kindle at amazon.com

Joyce Carol Oates has taken the American critics by surprise with her concise and inspired volume On Boxing. “I can't imagine putting one's whole life on the line, all that you are up to that moment, and stepping into the ring and more than I can imagine stepping into oblivion,” she says. “Maybe it's partly because I'm a woman. But it is one of the reasons why I am fascinated by boxing.”

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