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Even in the age of the iPhone, the Instagram generation is lining up in Central Park to have a picture of themselves taken — with a Polaroid camera.
Sophia Baui is one of them. While the 19-year-old may have been born long after instant film cams were retired and replaced by digital, she’s enamored by vintage-looking film prints.
The Australian tourist flew from Sydney to Manhattan to get a taste of the Big Apple and a must-see on her TikTok-compiled itinerary was paying a visit to Brian Fass, the internet-famous Polaroid photographer stationed in Central Park.
“It’s just so authentic,” Baui told The Post of square print-outs. “Looking back on memories, it’s a genuine trinket of something that was in the moment from that time.”
She added: “My kids are gonna look back on that and that’s me in New York.”
That’s part of the allure for the digitally savvy generation, who rarely have physical, printed…
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