Instant film

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.

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.

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.

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.