Insisting on the impossible: the life of Edwin Land

Abstract

An Inventor Is Born * Noontime * Self-Taught Boyhood * First Happiest Moment: Polarizer * Start-Up * Going Public Detroit And Hollywood * Headlight Glare * Three Dimensions World War II * The Best Damn Goggles in the World * Who Can Object to Such Monopolies? New Photography, New Science * Sepia in a Minute * A Whole New Industry * Black-and-White: Mero Morse * Instant Color: Howard Rogers * Color Vision Secret Statesman: Cold War * U-2 Spy Plane * The Shock of Sputnik * Spy Satellites Grand Scale: SX-70 * Demonstrating a New Medium * Collaborators * Selling SX-70 Exit From Polaroid * Crisis * Instant Movies * Too Late Evening * Polaroid vs. Kodak * Prosperos Island

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