Consisting of large-format color Polaroid images taken in what appears to be a classroom, the work is a pedagogic (and humorous) lesson in the illusionary capabilities of the camera.

The Polaroid image would possibly have shown whether Oswald was the shooter.

The film is being shot using a mix of super 8 and 16mm film stock and Polaroid images.

"You're very nice," he said, as he showed her the resulting Polaroid images.

Two photographic works composed of large-format Polaroid images have what might be called low-tech subject matter.

Among them is Ellen Carey, a photographer who creates startling abstract colored Polaroid images using random developing emulsion flows.

At the Japan Society, an installation of 3,400 Polaroid images Mr. Moriyama took of his living and working space in 1997 (the only color in any of the shows) centers on this image.

This is My Time, This is My Life (2003-2006) depicts Stockholm youth via Polaroid instant images.

The kicker was the accompanying photograph: a hazy Polaroid image of pigeons in a park, indistinguishable from one another.