Instant film
Película instantánea
- Date
- 1947 · confidence high
- Place
- Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
- Credited to
- Edwin H. Land
- Field
- Communication
What it is
A photographic film that develops and fixes the image inside the camera itself, producing a visible photograph within minutes, introduced by Polaroid under Edwin H. Land.
What it led to
- created the category of consumer instant photography
- drove the commercial success of Polaroid cameras for decades
- influenced artistic and immediate photography until the digital era