Land had picked up the camera during a meeting in Cambridge, and “this very dignified man slipped the strap onto his wrist, and walked up and down his office swinging it. And I thought, oh my god: the Swinger.” It was perfect for the moment, suggesting youth, movement, dancing, play, lightheartedness. For kids in the midst of the sexual revolution, “swinging” meant something that went entirely over their parents’ heads. “The most spontaneous camera in the world,” read the instruction manual.
