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George Eastman's baby faces its worst Kodak moment

Jamaica Observer - Jan 21, 2012
But George Eastman was the person who pulled together all the discoveries the others had made and packaged them in a practical form that captured the public's imagination, made him a very rich man and helped build an American city.

Former trailblazer Kodak reorganizes

Detroit Free Press - Jan 22, 2012
At the George Eastman Memorial, Eastman's ashes rest in an urn beneath the central stone. Founded by Eastman in 1880, Kodak turned photography into an overnight craze. / David Duprey/ASSOCIATED PRESS By Ben Dobbin Associated Press Eastman Kodak retired ...

Not even nostalgia could save Kodak

CNN International - Jan 23, 2012
So Kodak promised back in 1888 when founder George Eastman introduced the company's first camera. But that's the problem, isn't it? We don't need anybody to do "the rest" nowadays. We don't need film processing. We don't need film, for that matter.

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George Eastman books

Camera: A History of Photography from Daguerreotype to Digital

by: Todd Gustavson, George Eastman House

Cameras, and what they capture, forever changed our perception of the world, and of ourselves. Few inventions have had the impact of this ingenious, elegant, and deceptively simple device.

This gorgeous cornerstone volume, created in collaboration with the world-famous George Eastman House, celebrates the camera and the art of the photograph. It spans almost two hundred years of progress, from the first faint image ever caught to the instantaneous pictures snapped by today’s state-of-the-art digital equipment.
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500 Cameras: 170 Years of Photographic Innovation

by: Todd Gustavson, George Eastman House
From the world-famous Eastman House comes a lavish, expansive guide to nearly 200 years of photographic invention and innovation. Richly visual and wonderfully informative, it showcases 500 groundbreaking cameras from the museum's collection that forever changed our perception of the world, and of ourselves. Todd Gustavson, curator of technology at the George Eastman House, organizes the cameras into genealogical categories--from detective to digital, stereo to subminiature. Alongside the 35mm, you'll see curiosities like stereoscopic cameras, postcard cameras, and spy cameras hidden in watches, buttons, and fountain pens.
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A History of Photography: From 1839 to the Present; The George Eastman House Collection

TASCHEN's 25th anniversary - Special edition! "An intelligent introduction to the history of photography. In every respect, an outstanding work." -Choice magazine, USA
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