A new book recounts how a deceptively simple question put Edwin Land on a tireless quest to solve the problem of instant imagery. His creation, Polaroid, transformed how we relate to pictures.
- Camera lens
- car headlights
- cheaper plastic products
- Christopher Bonanos
- Christopher Bonanos
- Edwin H. Land
- Edwin Land
- Edwin Land
- Film formats
- flash
- Grand Canyon
- Impossible Project
- Instant camera
- Instant film
- Instant film
- Instant photography
- Kodak
- Land Camera
- later products
- Matt McCann
- New York Magazine
- New York Magazine
- novelty product
- Optics
- Photography
- Polaroid
- Polaroid
- Polaroid
- Polaroid Corporation
- refined product
- showcase
- Steve Jobs
- Technology
The Impossible Project has resurrected large format instant film - dead since 2009 - and the results of the first experimental batch will be on display at the Impossible Project Space in New York.
- 20x24 Studio
- 8-by-10
- Adam McCauley
- Analog photography
- André Bosman
- bank account
- beautiful product
- Bill Phelps
- Boston
- chemicals
- Chloe Aftel
- Chloe Aftel
- Christian Lutz
- consumer product
- Dallas
- Dave Bias
- decommissioned production equipment
- digital photography
- Edwin H. Land
- Edwin Land
- Entertainment
- Film formats
- flash
- Florian Kaps
- Impossible America Corporation
- Impossible Project
- Instant camera
- Instant film
- Instant film
- Jennifer Trausch
- John C. Reilly
- Kisha Bari
- machinery
- Manhattan
- Maurizio Galimberti
- Maurizio Galimberti
- Monica Belucci
- nearest supplier
- Netherlands
- New York
- New York City
- Patti Smith
- Photographic film
- Photography
- Polaroid
- Polaroid
- Polaroid Corporation
- Polaroid SX-70
- set 15
- showcase
- Studio
- Technology
- The Impossible Project
- the Venice Film Festival
- Thom Jackson
- Visual arts
- Willem Dafoe
Why could a small start-up build Instagram, a photo app, and sell it for $1 billion while companies like Eastman Kodak, steeped in photography and the emotionalism of photography, could not? Culture got in the way.
- Business
- Clayton M. Christensen
- Disruptions
- Disruptive technology
- disruptive technology
- disruptive technology
- Eastman Kodak
- Eastman Kodak
- Edwin H. Land
- Edwin Land
- Farmville
- Film formats
- Harvard Business School
- Hasbro
- innovation
- innovators dilemma
- Instant camera
- Instant film
- internet
- iPhone
- Kodak
- Kodak
- Kodak
- Land Camera
- Massachusetts
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Media Lab
- Michael Hawley
- Mobile
- Nikon
- Olympus
- Optics
- photography
- Polarization
- Polaroid
- Polaroid
- San Francisco
- social
- start-up
- start-ups
- SX-70
- Yale School of Management
For "Russia by Rail," the NPR photographer David Gilkey traveled nearly 6,000 miles aboard the Trans-Siberian Railway, catching glimpses of passing towns and people; smoke trailing high above factories and fields quilted with snow.
- Bulb
- Camera
- David Gilkey
- David Gilkey
- David Greene
- Digital camera
- digital cameras
- Digital photography
- Digital single-lens reflex camera
- Ekaterinburg
- Instant camera
- Instant film
- iPhone
- Kerri MacDonald
- Khabarovsk
- Moscow
- Moscow
- Must See
- National Public Radio
- npr
- Pacific Ocean
- Polaroid
- Russia
- Russia
- Russia by Rail
- Ulan-Ude
- Vladivostok
- Washington, D.C.
- Yaroslavl