A detailed look at Edwin Land and Polaroid, exploring instant photography's technical and cultural impact.
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A detailed look at Edwin Land and Polaroid, exploring instant photography's technical and cultural impact.
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With 500 patents and whole swaths of the fields of photography and optics to call his own, Edwin Land is a scientist whose Polaroid Corporation has built a billion-dollar business on the strength of his ideas. Land pioneered development of the SX-70 instant-photo camera, developed theories of color vision, invented the polarization process by which glare is filtered out of lenses, and made improvements on microscopes and other optical apparatuses. On the other hand, Land believes technology is t...
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