the.com/instant camera
a machine that turns patience into a chemical spectator sport, one photo at a time.
means a camera that develops and prints its own photo within minutes of the shutter click, no darkroom required.
from invented after edwin land's three-year-old daughter asked in 1943 why she couldn't see the photo right away, so he spent the next few years building her an answer: the polaroid.
land's deadlinepolaroid model 95 shipped just four years later, 1948
chemistry, not electronicsthe print develops itself via a burst pod of reagent
warhol's mediumandy warhol shot thousands of polaroids as sketches
near-death, revivalpolaroid nearly died in 2008, saved by fan-funded impossible project
for instance
polaroid sx-70 — 1972 folding slr, land's self-proclaimed masterpiece
fujifilm instax — outsold polaroid globally, over 10 million units by 2018
the impossible project — 2008 dutch startup that resurrected polaroid film from extinction
kodak instamatic — kodak's rival line, sued by polaroid for a decade