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George Eastman HouseOnline Photo Collection

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George Eastman and Kodak

• Born in 1854• Grew up in New York• Interested in cameras and lighter equipment• Invented “Kodak, you press the button we do

the rest.”• 1900, the Brownie, $15• 1903, non curling film

George Eastman and Kodak

• 1913 glass plates to sheet film• 1917 aerial cameras for the military• 1928 Kodacolor 16mm film for cameras• Philanthropist, employee benefits• Passed in 1932 at age 78

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• International Museum of Photography and Film

• 400,000+ photos and negatives• More than 14,000 photographers in

collections• “Hall of Fame” of photography

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• “A steadily growing digital image sampler and browsing resource for the vast photography holdings of George Eastman house.”

- from www.eastmanhouse.org

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• Homepage>Collections online> 12 categories(indexed by photographer, stereo views, images

of media and devices, etc…)

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• William Henry Jackson, Colorado 1874

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• William Henry Jackson, 1874 Blue River Mtns.

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• Nikolas Murray, Color prints, 1936, Lucky Strike & Camel

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• Nikolas Murray, Color Prints, 1938 & 1952

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• Ferenc Berko, 1946, India

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• Sid Avery, 1960’s ads

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• Sid Avery, 1960’s ads

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• Antonio Fernandez, 1967

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• Antonio Fernandez, 1967

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• William Gedney, San Fransisco, 1967

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• William Gedney, New York, 1967

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• Arnold Gassan, photo gravure, 1969

George Eastman House• John Pfahl 1988-1992, New York, Portfolios, Projects and Series, “Smoke”

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• Lynn Geesaman 1997

George Eastman House• “classical garden/cultivated landscape…For her these places represent a

human desire to find, amid the chaos of the environment, a reasoned order and a mathematical beauty of natural form. Building upon this approach, she turns her garden views into romanticized settings with a nostalgic look to the past…sophisticated printing technique, use of greenish sepia-toned paper…filters negative during enlargement (giving it a) blurred softened detail.”

-from notes by Therese Mulligan, 12/1999

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• Best of the best• Man Ray, Lewis Hine, Matthew Brady, Alfred

Steiglitz, Weegee• Surprised to see late 90’s work• More information about the photos

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