Why does it have to be that way? This led to a blizzard of What If hypothetical queries as Land worked through many smaller questions in service of a larger one: What if you could have a darkroom inside a camera? He connected ideas and pieces of knowledge from his work in chemistry, optics, and engineering—the author Bonanos observes that everything Land knew seemed to come together. But all of that clever connective inquiry would have come to nothing if Land hadn’t eventually proceeded to the How stage: getting his ideas down on paper, getting feedback on the idea, then beginning to create
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