Kai Aitchison, 28, bought his first Polaroid camera, an SX-70 Sonar One Step, about five years ago on eBay. “The cameras themselves are beautifully designed pieces of machinery,” Aitchison says. “Even ...

Alissa Mitchell holds photos that she took with her polaroid camera over the summer. Mitchell said she can really see why polaroid cameras are becoming popular. (Gianluca Cuestas) Recent trends show ...

It’s a shiny, tightly framed snapshot of a couple of friends of mine, posing as we share a booth at a New York diner. It’s almost (but not quite) square, with a distinctive white border that’s thicker ...

In 1970, Polaroid founder Edwin Land stood in a factory and proclaimed that in the future, the still camera would be like the telephone. As a crew of cinematographers rolled their tapes, he explained ...

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Even in the age of the iPhone, the Instagram generation is lining up in Central Park to have a picture of themselves taken — with a Polaroid camera. Sophia Baui is one of them. While the 19-year-old ...

I am a Polaroid-loving millennial and I don't care who knows it. There's nothing I enjoy more than showing up to a party with a Polaroid at hand and snapping instant photos of my friends — and I've ...

Long before Polaroid pictures invoked sun-bleached nostalgia, dreamlike memories and a lust for a bygone analog age, they were considered a flash of impossibly futuristic technology. When the ...

If you were to reinvent Polaroid, what would it look like? A few companies have tried answering that, mostly with instant-print cameras and smartphone-connected printers that riff on Polaroid's best ...

AMSTERDAM , March 4, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The Polaroid Now Generation 3 Instant camera is the classic analog instant camera, optimized for sharper pictures in more lighting conditions. Featuring a ...

Polaroid Swing, a new iOS app for creating animated photos, on Tuesday debuted at the App Store. The app has ties both to instant photography pioneer Polaroid and Twitter founder Biz Stone. Polaroid ...