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“Revolutionary Photographic News!”

By On 18 April 2014 · Leave a Comment

The owners of the old British newsreel company Pathé have thrown open the archive, offering free previews of tens of thousands of their films.  You k now what I searched for first, and I was not disappointed. Here’s a clip from 1948: Dr. Land shows off the Model 95 camera.

 

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Edwin Land at 104

By On 7 May 2013 · 1 Comment

Happy birthday to Dr. Land, born this day in 1909. That is all.

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Instant Artifact: The File Box

By On 7 April 2013 · 3 Comments

Here’s one Polaroid product you couldn’t buy in a photo store: a little box made of maple, sized exactly to hold and sort SX-70 photos.

What’s special about this, you may ask? Well, it was not produced commercially. Someone (probably in the Polaroid shops) made up a few of them, especially for one […]

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If You Really Want to Know About It

By On 29 January 2013 · Leave a Comment

Edwin Land’s published writing—precise, technically impeccable, and scientifically uncompromised—was the way he wished to be remembered, and two years after his death, his colleague Mary McCann collected it all into a pair of hardbound volumes. Published by the Science for Imaging & Technology in 1993, Edwin H. Land’s Essays never quite went out of print […]

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Instant Artifact: “The Long Walk”

By On 27 January 2013 · 7 Comments

A special post today: After much technical hoodoo, I’ve just posted a video transfer of “The Long Walk,” the short film of Edwin Land that was shot by Bill Warriner for Polaroid’s 1970 shareholders’ meeting. Apart from a couple of very short clips that made it into Polaroid promotions, and a snippet in my own […]

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Polaroidland South

By On 6 October 2012 · 3 Comments

Anyone know anything about this? Reportedly, this vacation house in Jamaica, called Hummingbird Hill, was built for Edwin Land. The house’s Website doesn’t confirm it, and neither does anything Google pulls up.

If it’s true, I have to assume that the house was mostly used by Terre and the girls, because Land had […]

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