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The Polaroid Camera: The Push Photography Needed
If we see photography as the most objective act of our human desire for making “ourselves known” and treasure memories to behold, then the Polaroid camera deserves a special place in its history. This day we want to talk a little about the history of Polaroid in photography.
On its Founder
Photography will always owe its existence to restless inventors and chemists who strongly persevere to reach their goals. The person behind the great invention that brought photography to a genuine state of immediacy was Edwin H. Land. Land decided to leave Harvard University at the age of 17 to focus on scientific research linked to the application of polarizing light filters. Now tell me about some real passion for light and optics!
Before Land decided to invent his revolutionary and very well developed instant camera, Kodak had tried to make something similar with their not practical at all Teddy Camera in 1924. But all this would not have been possible if his curious daughter hadn’t asked him a very simple yet deep question. While on vacation with his family, his 3-year-old daughter asked him why she couldn’t see the picture he had just taken of her. Quite an obvious question for a 3-year-old toddler indeed. But Land was a visionary man, and he started cooking the idea of an instant camera that very same day. Prior to…
