Watch 'Mr. Polaroid' on PBS, a documentary exploring the life and success of Edwin H. Land, co-founder of Polaroid.

Corporate sponsorship for American Experience is provided by Liberty Mutual Insurance and Carlisle Companies. Major funding by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Long before the iPhone, another inventive ...

Activist and chemist Caroline Hunter discusses her role in exposing Polaroid’s ties to apartheid South Africa in PBS’s 'Mr. Polaroid.' ...

An ‘American Experience’ documentary focuses on the inventor of the Polaroid camera, Edwin Land, a man of both brilliance and ...

Coming Soon! Premieres Monday, May 19, 2025 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS app. Meet Edwin Land, a pioneering tech disruptor and inventor of the midcentury icon, the Polaroid camera. Introduced in 1948, ...

Edwin Land left behind not only innovative products but also an impact on the development of all technology. His ideas forever changed how we take, process, and view photos.

But in the 1940s, the concept was revolutionary. Long before smart phones made instant photography possible, inventor Edwin Land created the Polaroid camera, a device that generated a sensation on ...

Edwin Land left behind not only groundbreaking products but also a lasting impact on the development of all technology. His ideas forever changed how we take, process, and view photos.

The Retinex theory (based on the Land Effect discovered by [Edwin Land]) attributes this to the fact that our eyes sense both the reflectance and the illumination of light. The new approach ...

Edwin Land, were he alive, would hate this post. He wanted to be known for this scientific work and not for his personal life. In fact, upon his death, he ordered the destruction of all his ...

Polaroid and Apple: Innovation Through Mental Invention In an excerpt from his new book Ten Steps Ahead, author Erik Calonius tells us about Edwin Land, inventor of the Polaroid Camera ...