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, ...

EXCLUSIVE: The idea of taking a photograph anywhere, anytime and see the image immediately has become entirely routine. But in the 1940s, the concept was revolutionary. Long before smart phones made ...

Dedicated at the MIT Museum on August 13, 2015, and installed at the former Polaroid Corporation Laboratory in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Edwin H. Land (1909–1991) was the innovative inventor ...

Which Polaroid instant cameras are best? In 1948, photography and instant gratification converged when Edwin H. Land invented the first Polaroid camera. Since then, a plethora of new technologies have ...

Long before the iPhone, another inventive device allowed everyone to instantly chronicle their lives — the Polaroid camera. The product, and the company’s unique culture, would launch not only instant ...

The title of “Mr. Polaroid,” on PBS’ “American Experience,” is as apt as it is succinct. Edwin H. Land wasn’t just the cofounder and longtime head of the Polaroid Corp., which for decades had its ...

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 ...

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 ...

A very special young man -- Polaroid is born -- One-step photography -- A consumer curiosity? -- Color -- Absolute one-step photography -- The big push -- the bigger divide -- Aladdin emerges -- The ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Mr. Polaroid, a new documentary about Polaroid inventor Edwin Land, will premiere ...

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 ...