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13 unusual facts about Polaroid Corporation


Doug Adair

City Camera News was notable for equipping reporters with Polaroid instant cameras, allowing them to take pictures that can be used on the air.

Gijs Bakker

He worked and works for numerous companies amongst which are Polaroid, Artifort, HEMA, Royal VKB, and ENO Studio.

Jacques Nasser

There, he led a number of deals, including the sale of Polaroid Corporation.

John A. Garcia

Garcia’s choice to rent one of his Malibu homes traditionally used for charitable events to a commercial group, Polaroid, came under scrutiny in 2007.

Joline Godfrey

A clinical social worker by training, at the beginning of her career, Godfrey was an executive of the Polaroid Corporation where she provided in-house family and therapeutic services to officers and employees.

Leah Hackett

In July 2008, Hackett was the face selected to launch the Polaroid PoGo.

Marius Bercea

Using what he describes as “an intensely personal archive” - family photographs, newspaper clippings, and tales from his family’s history - his paintings replicate the tonal impression of a Polaroid and fabricate the sense of a fading past, sometimes focussing on the happiness of simple moments and childhood routines.

Mary Moorman

Moorman stated that she stepped off the grass onto the street to take her Polaroid photo.

Polaroid Corporation

He - teamed with André Bosman, a former head of film production in the large Polaroid film factory at Enschede - designed a plan to redesign the SX-70/600 film system in collaboration with Ilford Photo, and convinced the Polaroid owners to participate.

Samuel Steward

During his years of work with the Institute, Steward collected and donated sexually themed materials to the Kinsey archive, gave Kinsey access to his lifelong sexual records, introduced him to large numbers of sexually active men in the Chicago area, and provided him with large numbers of early sex Polaroid photographs which he took during the frequent all-male sex parties he held in his Chicago apartment.

Steven Kropper

His father, Jon Kropper, was an executive with prominent technology firms like Polaroid Corporation, Digital Equipment, Wang Labs and HADCO.

Success trap

For example, in the 1990s Polaroid’s management failed to respond to the transition from analogue to digital photography, although the rise of digital technology had been evident since the 1980s.

United States trademark law

For example, coined words - such as Kodak, Polaroid, or Starbucks - are considered fanciful and receive strong trademark protection.


Bill Todman

Frederick S. Todman & Co represented some of the United States biggest companies, including The New York Stock Exchange, American Stock Exchange, Polaroid, Eastman Kodak, Chase Manhattan Bank among many others.

Carl Yankowski

Carl J. Yankowski (born 1948) is a CEO who has held senior positions at Polaroid, Pepsi, General Electric, Sony Electronics, Reebok, and Palm, Inc..