Contextual research - Polaroid

Progressing further into the project, due to the circumstance that I am unable to get film developed, I will be focusing on the use of Polaroids. In lead up to this, I have informed myself on the beginning of Polaroid, and where the idea of instant photography became idolised.

The technology used to give the outcome of a Polaroid is an instant camera, consisting of self developing film with chemicals that allow the photograph to develop in a short amount of time. The first form of instant photography was created by Samuel Shlafrock in 1923, using an instant camera and process, in which film and photographic paper would develop under dark lighting then to be processed with chemicals. 

The first instant camera was the 'Land camera' created by Edwin Land, later developed by worldwide company Polaroid in 1948. This was the first form of technology that began instant photography.