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 ...

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 ...

A show at Harvard Business School looks at the company as an engine for change in society and art as well as technology Twenty years ago, the Polaroid Corp. donated its archives to Harvard Business ...

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 ...

Edwin Land, were he alive, would hate this post. He wanted to be known for this scientific work and not for his personal life. In fact, upon his death, he ordered the destruction of all his personal ...

This month, AMERICAN EXPERIENCE introduces viewers to Edwin Land, the visionary scientist and inventor of the Polaroid camera. Because of his invention, people could snap a picture and see it nearly ...

The story of Edwin Land, whose iconic Polaroid camera let everyone instantly chronicle their lives. Long before the iPhone, another inventive device allowed everyone to instantly chronicle their lives ...

Ansel Adams Edwin Land and The Persistence of Myth and Tragedy. At the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, two legendary figures from the history of photography have been brought together in Ansel ...

We recently published an affectionate look at a Polaroid Land camera, whose peel-apart instant film is long out of production except for a very few single exposure packs form a boutique manufacturer.