The story of Polaroid's instant photography begins almost a hundred years ago with an offhand comment from a child, and it extends into today. Photography has gone through myriad iterations since the ...

American Experience is presenting “Mr. Polaroid” at 8 p.m. Monday, May 19, on New Mexico PBS, channel 5.1. It will also be available to stream on the PBS app. Edwin Land was always a dreamer. At 14, ...

There are few things that have changed more in living memory than the camera. It wasn't long ago that good cameras were heavy objects made of steel and glass. They had no memory and needed film to ...

Edwin Land—forbidding, obsessive, brilliant and the subject of the “American Experience” presentation “Mr. Polaroid”—was an idol of Steve Jobs, according to Land biographer Ron Fierstein, because his ...

Polaroid was founded in 1937 by Edwin Land, and originally sold polarized sunglasses. The first instant camera followed a decade later, though users had to get very hands-on to obtain a print. That ...

Fifty years ago today, photography changed forever. The 3,000-something people assembled at a Polaroid warehouse in Needham, Massachusetts were the first to hear the news from Polaroid ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Polaroid Land Camera Model 95. First ...

The adapter is compatible with a bevy of Land Cameras spanning the 100-400 lines, plus the M60/80 and Countdown 70/90. The kit comes with a resin, 3D-printed adapter that connects to the back of the ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. In 1947, Edwin H. Land, founder of ...

The October 27, 1972, cover of Life magazine presented the revolutionary Polaroid SX-70 system -- the first fully automatic, motorized folding single-lens reflex camera that ejects self-developing, ...

The Polaroid Land Camera was born from founder Edwin Land's invention of film that did not require a chemical bath to develop. Despite its success, Polaroid filed for bankruptcy in 2001 due to the ...