After Polaroid announced that it was discontinuing its instant film, the market for Polaroids became niche-driven, somewhat analogous to how vinyl sales work in the current music industry. Polaroid ...

Let’s get one thing out of the way right now: If you’re taking photographs with a Polaroid camera in the 21st century, it’s not because pristine image quality is your overarching priority. In the ...

There is still some fondness out there for the old-style cameras, and one that often evokes sighs of remembrance is the ...

Long before the iPhone, another inventive device allowed everyone to instantly chronicle their lives — the Polaroid camera. The product, and the company’s unique culture, would launch not only instant ...

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 for ...

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 ...