see http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/us_and_canada/10355526.stm
"Tiny laboratories
Until it came along in 1948, photography was a tiresome business.
Unless you had your own darkroom, rolls of film had to be sent away to developers or left at pharmacies, then collected days or even weeks later.
Land's invention transformed an industrial process into something that happened in your hand."
"Farrah Fawcett Polaroid A Farrah Fawcett portrait by Andy Warhol could fetch $7,000 (£4,730)"
Stephen
"Tiny laboratories
Until it came along in 1948, photography was a tiresome business.
Unless you had your own darkroom, rolls of film had to be sent away to developers or left at pharmacies, then collected days or even weeks later.
Land's invention transformed an industrial process into something that happened in your hand."
"Farrah Fawcett Polaroid A Farrah Fawcett portrait by Andy Warhol could fetch $7,000 (£4,730)"
Stephen