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70 years of instant photos, thanks to inventor Edwin Land's Polaroid camera

  • Written by Ann Elsner, Professor of Optometry, Indiana University
It's been 70 years of instant photography, thanks to Edwin Land, on the left.AP Photo

It probably happens every minute of the day: A little girl demands to see the photo her parent has just taken of her. Today, thanks to smartphones and other digital cameras, we can see snapshots immediately, whether we want to or not. But in 1944 when 3-year-old...

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