Kodak

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 massmarket 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