Images and Enterprise

Technology and the American Photographic Industry 1839 to 1925
Erscheinungsjahr 1989
ISBN: 978-0-8018-3549-0
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press

Buch, Englisch, 391 Seiten, Format (B × H): 210 mm x 280 mm, Gewicht: 956 g

Reihe: Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology

Winner of the Dexter Prize of the Society for the History of Technology.

From the early daguerreotype to the rise of the motion picture, Images and Enterprise explores the business, technical, and social factors that transformed the American photographic industry between 1839 and 1925. Reese Jenkins's prize-winning history traces the technical changes that culminated in George Eastman's creation of the Kodak system of amateur photography in the 1880s. Its compact, simply operated cameras would revolutionize an entire industry—even if at first the whole camera had to be mailed back to the company for developing and reloading. Images and Enterprise also vividly portrays the emergence of cinematography in its relationship to traditional photography and reveals the growing importance of institutionalized research, as Eastman Kodak and the other American and European photographic materials manufacturers strove to develop commercially practical color photography.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jenkins, Reese V.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Fotografie Fotografie: Geschichte und Sammlungen
• Technische Wissenschaften Technik Allgemein Technikgeschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Jenkins, Reese V.
Robert A. Rosenberg, Paul B. Israel, Keith A. Nier, and Martha J. King are volume editors for Volume 3 at the Thomas A. Edison Papers at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.

Reese Jenkins is a professor emeritus of history at Rutgers and editor of The Papers of Thomas A. Edison, The Making of an Inventor, February 1847-June 1874, Volume 1.