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1909 – 1991Edwin Land (1909-1991)Died 1 March 1991, aged 81Inventor and Polaroid founder Edwin Land died in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He developed instant photography and held over 500 patents during his career. His Polaroid cameras made instant pictures a fixture of consumer life for decades.