Sunday, October 31, 2021

Instant gratification in 1948

What we had that day was our story. We didn't have the other bit, the future, and we had no way of knowing what that would be like. Perhaps it would change our memory of al of this, or perhaps it would draw from it, nobody knew. But I'm sure I felt the story of that hall and how we reached it would never vanish.”


There’s this photograph of Violet Carson, who played Sharples. She’s dead now. In the photograph, she’s standing on a balcony over Salford, it tells you everything you need to know about everything. 

I was looking at Barrie. The Nicholson portrait. It’s haunting, actually. I’ve never seen a person more alone. He’s only forty-four. It was painted a dozen years before the tragedies began. 

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Instant gratification in 1948

While on vacation with his family in 1944, Edwin Land’s three-year-old daughter asked him why she couldn’t see the picture he had just taken of her on his camera. Within the same day, the prolific inventor claimed he came up with the camera design, the film, and chemistry that could accomplish his daughter’s wish. It was another three years until he finally realized his vision and presented instant camera film to the public for the first time. Land’s invention was a huge milestone in the history of photography, as it transformed the timely traditional process of the medium into something that took just a matter of minutes. In 1948, the Polaroid Land Model 95 camera was born, bringing this exciting technology to the hands of the consumer. The original model had two separate positive and negative rolls, which enabled the image to be developed inside the camera. Polaroid manufactured just 60 copies of the Land Camera at first, but the company seriously underestimated the demand—all of the units and film sold out in one day.



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