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While I appreciated Christopher Reynolds’ article on the proliferation of Polaroid images created by significant artists (“Instant Culture for Sale,” Jan. 6), I was astonished that Marie Cosindas was not mentioned anywhere in the piece.

Her amazing Polaroid portraits and imaginative still-life creations have been bringing their painterly images to the delighted eyes of this viewer and others for many years.

A hard-bound collection of her work, “Marie Cosindas: Color Photographs,” with a preface by Tom Wolfe (whose likeness she has portrayed), alas, is now out of print. Cosindas deserves to be recognized in any essay on the use of the Polaroid camera.

PEGGY AYLSWORTH LEVINE

Santa Monica

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Reynolds neglected to mention a recent and remarkable use of unique Polaroid film and equipment.

After the World Trade Center attack, Joe McNally, a Life magazine photojournalist, took life-size pictures of about 150 people, including firefighters, police and rescue personnel, widows of victims and survivors, and Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani.

The photographs will be exhibited in various locations including the Skirball Center in Los Angeles, June 13-July 9.

HARVEY FEDER

Tarzana