I found this recently on Jason Santa Maria’s blog:
…Jamie Livingston’s Photo of the Day (more background), a daily slice of one man’s life from 1979-1997 told through Polaroids (ending when cancer claimed the photographer). 6,697 Polaroids…
I’m not totally sure why but I found this absolutely fascinating - I lost an hour or so just looking through photos and reading about it. Have look and hopefully you find it as moving as I did.
Photo of the day (the original/beta site) - http://photooftheday.hughcrawford.com/ Links to some other versions - http://hughcrawford.com and some blog posts here.