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[A Polaroid camera] places before you a thing that is more of the thing than the thing was.

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Edwin Land
Age: 81 †
Born: 1909
Born: May 7
Died: 1991
Died: March 1
Entrepreneur
Inventor
Photographer
Physicist
Bridgeport
Connecticut
Edwin Land
Edwin Herbert Land
E.H. Land
Polaroid
Camera
Cameras
Places
Thing

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