During a family vacation to New Mexico in 1944, the daughter of Edwin H. Land asked her father a good question: Why couldn't she see the photographs now? Land said later that, within an hour, he had visualized a camera, film and chemistry system to help make his little girl's wish a reality.
Thus was born the Polaroid camera, which, long before the iPhone, gave us instant-gratification photography.
We learn a lot about Land in "Remembering a Grand Experiment: A Personal History of the Polaroid Collection," an essay by Barbara Hitchcock, who once served as director of cultural affairs and curator of the Polaroid collections.
Hitchcock traveled to Fort Worth from Boston recently to share her expertise about the exhibition, which is making its U.S. debut at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art.