Mr. Polaroid, a new documentary about Polaroid inventor Edwin Land, will premiere May 19, 2025, at 9:00-10:00 p.m. ET on AMERICAN EXPERIENCE on PBS. Over a half century ago, before the smartphone, ...

EXCLUSIVE: The idea of taking a photograph anywhere, anytime and see the image immediately has become entirely routine. But in the 1940s, the concept was revolutionary. Long before smart phones made ...

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 ...

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 Fierstein, because his ...

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 ...

Watch a preview of Mr. Polaroid. Watch a preview of Mr. Polaroid. Corporate sponsorship for American Experience is provided by Liberty Mutual Insurance and Carlisle Companies. Major funding by the ...

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 decades had its ...

American Experience is presenting “Mr. Polaroid” at 8 p.m. Monday, May 19, on New Mexico PBS, channel 5.1. It will also be available to stream on the PBS app. Edwin Land was always a dreamer. At 14, ...