18 years of photographs, around 6570. Currently, 16 exposures for the SX-70 (the camera he used) cost $72 on ebay. That puts the cost of 6570 polaroid pictures

18 years of photographs, around 6570. Currently, 16 exposures for the SX-70 (the camera he used) cost $72 on ebay. That puts the cost of 6570 polaroid pictures today at a bit less than $30,000 - and they would have been cheaper 13 years ago, when he died. There's also no evidence from the pictures shown in the article that he died poor.