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 ...

For over 50 years, the brand has defined and redefined the instant camera. Now, it's shaking things up again with its latest ...

Polaroid is not in the business of perfection. Its photographs, going back many decades, have a somewhat indescribable look, a graininess and rough-hewn quality so iconic that Instagram copied it ...

Polaroid, the first instant picture-making camera, became incredibly popular in the 1950s. However, as technology progressed — including smartphones with built-in cameras, the Polaroid company stopped ...

Last year, I purchased Polaroid’s first manual instant camera, the I-2, and have had a complicated relationship with it. Dialing in a picture is satisfying, but I rarely want to go through the ...

Edwin Land demonstrates his instant camera or Land Camera, manufactured by Polaroid, circa 1947 Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images “After years of trials, in 1947, Land demonstrated a working ...