Camera: A History of Photography from Daguerreotype to DigitalCameras, 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.The informative narrative by Todd Gustavson traces the camera s development, the lives of its brilliant but often eccentric inventors, and the artists behind the lens. Images and highly descriptive captions for more than 350 cameras from the George Eastman House Collection, plus more than 100 historic photos, ads, and drawings, complement the text.A foreword by the George Eastman House Director Anthony Bannon, and insightful essays by Steve Sasson, inventor of the digital camera, and Alexis Gerard, visionary founder and president of Future Image Inc., completes this illuminating study of one of the greatest modern technological achievements. " |
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Page 100
... knob at the back turned a worm gear to focus . Well made and compact , it proved quite popular . In an advertisement from 1907 , Lancaster claimed more than 150,000 had been manufactured . Its list price was £ 22 . Academy Camera No. 1 ...
... knob at the back turned a worm gear to focus . Well made and compact , it proved quite popular . In an advertisement from 1907 , Lancaster claimed more than 150,000 had been manufactured . Its list price was £ 22 . Academy Camera No. 1 ...
Page 113
... knob protruded through buttonholes and the shutter was operated by pulling a string attached to a shaft near the bottom edge of the brass body . The circular dry plates were loaded into the camera by opening the clamshell rear door and ...
... knob protruded through buttonholes and the shutter was operated by pulling a string attached to a shaft near the bottom edge of the brass body . The circular dry plates were loaded into the camera by opening the clamshell rear door and ...
Page 303
... knob on the side turned to advance the next fresh plate into position as a knob pointer tracked the remaining plates . When the narrow dark slide was pulled out , the exposed tintype dropped from the magazine into a developing tank or ...
... knob on the side turned to advance the next fresh plate into position as a knob pointer tracked the remaining plates . When the narrow dark slide was pulled out , the exposed tintype dropped from the magazine into a developing tank or ...
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Camera: A History of Photography from Daguerreotype to Digital Todd Gustavson No preview available - 2009 |
Camera: A History of Photography from Daguerreotype to Digital Todd Gustavson,George Eastman House No preview available - 2009 |
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