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Cameras Quote by Edwin Land

“[A Polaroid camera] places before you a thing that is more of the thing than the thing was.” quote by Edwin Land — Download Open image

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

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I believe quite simply that the small company of the future will be as much a research organization as it is a manufacturing company.

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