Kodak

• started manufacturing paper film in 1885

before switching to celluloid in 1888-1889
• 1888 Eastman's Kodak "You press the button,
we do the rest’’
• Picture taking/picture making
 Kodak Brownie

• photography became
available for the mass-
market in 1901
• snapshot photography
• box form
• 100 exposure film
• More than 100 000
 Shew Xit camera

• Strut cameras, lighter,

compact, easier to carry
• 1890s
Newman and Guardia’s Nydia
Folding pocket
film camera
• Kodak, 1890s
 Leica

• manufacturers started to
use 35mm film for still
photography between
1905 and 1913
• It wasn't until after World
War I that Leica
commercialized their first
35mm Cameras – Ur Leica
Frank Rinehart
• Native Indians –
Exposition
• Mississippi 1989.
August Sander
• Man of Twentieth century
• Nazi ruined
• Individuality, social role
Doris Ulmann
Counsuelo Kanaga
• News photographer
 Yousuf Karsh

M. L. King, Jan
Sibelius, Einstein,
Hemingway, Churchill
 Mammoth camera

• George Lawrence
– train
• 635kg, 15 men,
2.5 min –
137*243cm
• Grand prize Paris
exibition 1900
 Pictorialism
• manipulated what would otherwise be a
straightforward photograph as a means of
"creating" an image rather than simply
recording it
• emotional intent, true art form, more than
just reality
 Robert Demachy
• Reminiscent of
Degas paintings
• Photography
first step –
manipulations
• Brushstroke -
paintings
 Alfred Stieglitz
• Atmosphere softens all
lines; it graduates the
transition from light to
shade; it is essential to
the reproduction of the
sense of distance