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Harold Edgerton’s electronic flash ushered photography into an era of ultra-high speed, with shutter exposures of less than 1/50,000 of a second. Edgerton’s photographs have shown us a drop of milk hitting a plate, a bullet passing through a light bulb, and a hummingbird resting on air. After World War II, amateur photography experienced another boom period. Renewed interest was in large part due to the advent of the Kodak Brownie instamatic cameras and the 1947 invention of the Polaroid Land Camera (a camera that bore the name of it’s inventor, Edwin Land). The revolutionary new Polaroid produced a positive print in sixty seconds, because both the negative and the positive images were developed simultaneously. Despite harsh critics who said the Polaroid could not possibly last, it has endured to become a photographic mainstay among amateurs, as well as being used by many professionals in many different media related fields. In 2008 Polaroid stopped production of it’s instant photography line, but in 2009, back by popular demand, the company announced that Polaroid would soon be available once again. * People have been keeping visual records of themselves and the things around them since prehistoric times, recording images that range from carefully drawn hieroglyphics to pictures taken on the surface of the moon. Each image is an attempt to communicate from one person to another the things we see. Photography, which means literally “writing with light”, gives us the means to record and examine our day-to-day activities and experiences. Unlike the casual glance, which often “sees” only the major elements of a scene, a photograph records the tiniest of details. It then allows us time to study and understand each minute element. A photograph preserves what memory cannot. The ability of light to transmit images was apparently first casually noted by the Egyptians some ten thousand years ago. Hiding from the fierce sun in their tents and huts, these ancients