Ten For Today: Shake It Like a Polaroid Picture
Japan, Sympathy Nervous, Front, Ruth, Fito Paez, Portastatic, Ladytron, Manic Street Preachers, The Roots, Clairo
On this day in 1947, Massachusetts scientist Edwin Land demonstrated the Land camera, later known as the Polaroid, a revolutionary device that contained developing chemicals and a paper cutter and dispensed your black and white photograph right there on the spot. Though it was called an “instant” camera, you did have to wait one excruciatingly long minu…
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