from The Wall Street Journal -
Big Artists, Big Camera: Not a Typical Polaroid
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An interesting development following the intention of Polaroid to cease production of its instantmatic film. Perhaps, it takes the exclusivity of art-making (and a soaring price-tag does help in the process) to stir interest in the continuation and preservation of the technology, albeit with private funding.

Separately, taking issue with the concluding paragraph:

"Only the Polaroid process can guarantee that the picture you see is identical to the subject that stood before the camera. The 20x24, a lovely, archaic piece of technology, preserves the one form of photography you can trust."

This must stem from a philosophical misunderstanding - which is that even if there is extreme fidelity in the transfer of image, the very act of cropping or framing renders the representation, at best, a proxy for but never identical to "reality".