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Steve Jobs and Edwin Land

By On 20 January 2012 · 5 Comments

I’ve written before about the powerful resonances between Steve Jobs’s Apple and Edwin Land’s Polaroid. You can read that story here, in the New York Times. But shortly after that op-ed ran, I found two photos that just startled me.

Here’s Land at a shareholders’ meeting, probably the one at which he […]

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Instant Artifact: Type 41

By On 10 January 2012 · 6 Comments

Each week here, I’ll be posting photos of, and discussing, a Polaroid product from way-back-when. Many, but not all, will be coming from the deep recesses of a storage closet in my apartment. (Yes, I have a very tolerant wife.)

Today’s artifact is a fun one: A case of Polaroid roll film, unopened. “Use by […]

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