For this reader one of the most interesting details of the Steve
Jobs biography (highly recommended) was that Jobs’ most
important heroes was Edwin Land, inventor of the Polaroid
camera. With the ubiquity of digital cameras, many as part of
our phones, and the images we take shared on social media sites
instantly totaling in the trillions,, it’s easy to forget the
time and effort that used to be involved capturing images. But
the Polaroid, with its easy to use interface – point and shoot,
and instantaneous (well, 60 seconds of wait time, but still..),
was a revolution. Slate has a gallery of images tracking the
rise and fall of Polaroid. And in the stacks: Insisting on the
impossible : the life of Edwin Land / Victor K. McElheny –
TR540.L36 M36 1998 Polaroid book : selections from the Polaroid
Collections of photography / edited by Steve Crist ; essay by
Barbara Hitchcock- TR654 .P65 2005 Polaroids / Helmut Newton –
TR679 .N49 2011 Guy Bourdin : Polaroids – TR647 .B67 2009
Instant light : Tarkovsky polaroids