Land Camera Land Camera Land Cameras are instant cameras with self-developing film named after their inventor, Edwin Land, who created them while working for Research Row in Boston, Massachusetts. They were manufactured by Polaroid between the years of 1947 and 1983. Though Polaroid continued producing instant cameras after 1983, the name 'Land' was dropped from the camera name since Edwin Land retired in 1982. The first commercially available model was the "Polaroid Land Camera Model 95", which produced prints in about 1 minute, was first sold to the public on November 28, 1948. The process, invented by Polaroid founder Edwin Land, was
Polaroid Corporation several former Polaroid employees to their staff. The company expects the agreement to yield $1.3 billion in retail sales over an unspecified period beginning in 2009. On January 5, 2010, Polaroid appointed Lady Gaga as "Creative Director" for the company. A press release stated that she would be the "new face" of Polaroid. In 2017, the holding corporation for Polaroid, PLR IP Holdings, LLC, was acquired by Polish investor Oskar Smołokowski. The last factory producing Polaroid instant picture film cartridges in Enschede, Netherlands, under the trademark "Impossible", which had already been led by Smołokowski as CEO, was rebranded to "Polaroid