Before Sexting, There Was Polaroid

Long before mobile phone phone yield us the ability to partake in pictures with the tap of a button , Polaroid was synonymous with instant picture taking . In his new bookInstant : The Story of Polaroid , Christopher Bonanos explains how that little one stair camerapaved the room for sexting as we bang it :

There are passel of naughty first - coevals Polaroid photos out there to confirm that crying photography ’s success was at least in part built on adult fun . At the time , “ camera club ” sessions were a pop fad : afternoons with a engage nude model , leave amateurish shutterbug a few hours to indulge their artsy - prurient side . Bettie Page , the 1950s pinup , got her start in these place , and pornography historian Joseph Slade has noted even frontal nakedness in her Polaroid photograph from these session . The Kinsey Institute has many such Polaroid ikon on file , too . By the 1960s , advertizing were appearing in sure magazine for a woman who would nonplus for naked Polaroid snapshots for a price .

Next fourth dimension you broadcast or receive a rauncy picture text , remember to thank Polaroid and its tardy founder Edwin Land . For more of story , check out an excerption fromInstantover atThe Atlantic . [ The Atlantic ]

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