5 Dollar Portraits by Caroll Taveras!

by Art Fag City on January 30, 2009 · 6 comments

Hello recession friendly art! Art Fag City’s Deal of the Week Award goes to Carol Taveras’s five buck Portrait Studio. A professional photographer whose work has appeared in The Guardian, Culture + Travel, French Glamour, and the New York Times Magazine, the artist now offers to take a 4.5 inch Polaroid portrait to friends, neighbors and passerbys. If you like what you get, you can upgrade your five buck portrait to the 20 dollar 8 x 10 version, a photograph perfect for every parent’s wall!

Photo Studio is located on 539 Atlantic Avenue Brooklyn between 3rd and 4th. Hours are Tuesday through Friday 1:00 pm to 8:00 pm and Saturday through Sunday 12:00 pm through 5:00 pm. Through February 11, 2009

Carol Taveras


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Paul Pincus
amazing! caroll taveras’ portraits are great-looking. i love her kingston, jamaica series.
Paul Pincus
amazing! caroll taveras’ portraits are great-looking. i love her kingston, jamaica series.
http://portfolio.streetnine.com/index.html Joe
Sara and I went by this afternoon and had our portrait taken– Caroll’s really great!
http://portfolio.streetnine.com/index.html Joe
Sara and I went by this afternoon and had our portrait taken– Caroll’s really great!
http://nickparish.net/nyc/shot-caroll/ Shot by Caroll – nickparish.net: on the shore of the ultimate sea
[...] and I took a little field trip down Atlantic avenue to see photographer Caroll Taveras and her $5 portrait studio last Saturday, and I’m happy to report she did a great job.1 She did such a great job that [...]
http://hragvartanian.com/2009/02/11/caroll-taveras/ Visiting the Caroll Taveras Photo Studio on Atlantic Ave
[...] Atlantic Avenue and invited the community to come in and have their photos taken for her latest project…though for $5 you can walk out with a pretty amazing Polaroid [...]