In today’s Guardian, there’s another article about Jamie Livingston, our friend who took a Polaroid every day from 1979-1997. Hugh Crawford is quoted in the article. 

The photographer’s name was Jamie Livingston. He was a filmmaker and
editor who worked on public information films, adverts and promo videos
for MTV. Taking a single photo every day began by accident when he was
22 and studying film with Crawford at Bard College, in upstate New
York. "He’d been doing it for about a month before he realised he’d
been taking about one picture a day, and then he made a commitment to
keep doing that," says Crawford. "That’s what he was like. There are
some people who have flashes of brilliance and do things in a huge rush
or creative bursts but he was more of a steady, keeps-at-it kind of guy
and he did amazing stuff. Part of the appeal of the site is that Jamie
wasn’t this amazing-looking guy. He led an incredible life, but there’s
an everyman quality to the photographs."