Edwin H. Land,
inventor of Polaroid
instant film
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On November
26, 1948, the first instant camera and film were sold to the public at Jordan Marsh
department store in Boston, Massachusetts. Fifty years later, Polaroid celebrates the
anniversary of one of the greatest advances in photographic technology—a one-step
photographic process that produces finished photographs within one minute.
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November 26, 1948,
a huge crowd in Boston
gets its first glance at
the first instant film
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In 1944,
Edwin H. Land, while vacationing in Santa Fe, New Mexico, photographed his young daughter
who wondered aloud why she couldn’t see her portrait right away. What began with a
child’s innocent question resulted in a dramatic advance in photographic science and
technology when the instant photographic process was introduced to the Optical Society of
America three years later. Creative, innovative thinking made possible what previously had
been thought impossible.
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