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History & Criticism - General & Miscellaneous Photography, Inventions & Inventors, Photography, Inventors - Biography, Business Biography - Specific Individuals, 19th Century Photography
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George Eastman

by Burnham Holmes
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George Eastman tells the exciting story of the life and times of this outstanding American pioneer in the field of photography.Readers learn how events of Eastman's childhood greatly influenced Eastman, as well as what obstacles he encountered. This absorbing biography explains how Eastman perfected a process for making photographic dry plates, invented the Kodak box camera, and introduced daylight-loading film. Eastman also organized the Eastman-Kodak Company and introduced millions of Americans to the wonders of photography with his Brownie camera.

Describes the life of the man who revolutionized photography by developing a camera simple enough for anyone to use.

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Children's Literature - Beverly Kobrin

Certain that there must be an easier way, George Eastman developed and patented the machines and processes that transformed picture taking from a complex, many-stepped procedure into a task as simple as pressing a button. With hard work, business acumen, and marketing genius, he turned photography into the pastime of ordinary people. Burnham Holmes has written an absorbing account of the man whose name is synonymous with snapshots, the industry he helped create, and the philanthropy that industry supported under his guidance.

Book Details

Published
May 1, 1992
Publisher
Silver Burdett Pr
Pages
144
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780382241765

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