Which Polaroid instant cameras are best? In 1948, photography and instant gratification converged when Edwin H. Land invented the first Polaroid camera. Since then, a plethora of new technologies ...

The Polaroid Flip is one of those devices that sounds more fun in theory than it does to actually take it into the field. The $200 full-size instant camera looks a little too much like your ...

Polaroid’s new collaboration with the Metropolitan Museum of Art (MoMA) is designed to make your retro photos look like colorful works of pop art—and it feels like a flashback to 2014. The ...

The camera of choice for the partnership is Polaroid’s Now Generation 3 (not the recently announced Polaroid Flip). Finished in a rich blue (not quite as dark as that equated with Yves Klein), the ...

This month, AMERICAN EXPERIENCE introduces viewers to Edwin Land, the visionary scientist and inventor of the Polaroid camera. Because of his invention, people could snap a picture and see it nearly ...

The title of “Mr. Polaroid,” on PBS’ “American Experience,” is as apt as it is succinct. Edwin H. Land wasn’t just the cofounder and longtime head of the Polaroid Corp., which for ...

Edwin Land—forbidding, obsessive, brilliant and the subject of the “American Experience” presentation “Mr. Polaroid”—was an idol of Steve Jobs, according to Land biographer Ron ...

A Polaroid test sheet from 1946. Image courtesy MIT Museum. With the advent of instant photography, Polaroid revolutionized the industry in a flash. Never before the Model 95 camera debuted in ...

The Polaroid Supercolor 635 camera was produced from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s. Rawpixel. From the release of the first instant camera in 1948—a bulky, accordion-style apparatus that sold ...

Few names are more synonymous with innovation in photography than Polaroid. For over 50 years, the brand has defined and redefined the instant camera. Now, it's shaking things up again with its ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. You don’t need 20 years of testing experience to know that instant cameras are fun way to ...