Archäologie CLXXXIII: A Look at Photos From Kodak’s Glory Days
In 1888, George Eastman invented the Kodak camera, which consisted of a simple wooden box with no adjustments, which took photographs of circular 6.35 cm diameter without cropping the image circle for a square or rectangle like most other cameras.
In 1900, Eastman Kodak introduced the Brownie, the first mass-market camera that allowed anyone to take a picture. Since then, the company has been on the cutting edge of photography. It supplied the film used on the Apollo 11 missions and was even the first to put together a working digital camera. Ultimately, Kodak couldn’t keep up in the digital marketplace. In 2009, the company stopped selling its Kodachrome color film and, by 2010, it had fallen to seventh place in terms of digital cameras sold. Now, the 130-year-old company is filing for bankruptcy and may shutter its doors for good...
Der sehr empfehlenswerte Blog vintage everyday - denoting something of high quality, something from the past or characteristic of the best period zeigt heute faszinierende frühe Kodak-Photographien. Auch sonst eine Fundgrube:
Paul Newman in Venice, 1963
Gary Cooper in Venice, 1955. Hollywood legend Gary Cooper, on a venetian gondola, lighting a cigarette, the gondolier behind him.
gebattmer - 2012/01/27 19:10
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