[Two young men standing together, one wears a striped kepie, the other wears a dress and derby hat]
Photograph
[Two young men standing together, one wears a striped kepie, the other wears a dress and derby hat]
ca. 1890
Albumen silver print
Image (circular): 8.9 x 9 cm
Mount: 13.2 x 10.6 cm
Gift of Greene County Historical Society
1981.2603.0114
Inscriptions verso-(printed): Manufacturers of the Kodak Camera Eastman Kodak Co. Rochester, N.Y. 115 Oxford St. London.
Text“You push the button, we do the rest” was the slogan with which George Eastman introduced the Kodak camera to the world in 1888. The cameras came loaded with film for one hundred exposures. After exposing the images, the customer mailed the still-loaded camera to Kodak where the film would be processed, prints made, camera reloaded, and package returned to the customer.
Eastman’s invention and innovative photographic service model revolutionized the practice of photography. As improvements to materials and technology were made, photography became increasingly accessible and affordable to the average person, making the medium ever more popular. The Kodak method’s simplicity, together with continual improvements in the photosensitivity of the materials, inspired a more spontaneous, lighthearted, and incidental approach to picture-taking than was previously possible, as suggested by this array of early snapshots.
Lisa Hostetler, Ph.D.
Curator in Charge, Department of Photography
Label for A History of Photography [Rotation 1]
May 9–September 28, 2014
Eastman’s invention and innovative photographic service model revolutionized the practice of photography. As improvements to materials and technology were made, photography became increasingly accessible and affordable to the average person, making the medium ever more popular. The Kodak method’s simplicity, together with continual improvements in the photosensitivity of the materials, inspired a more spontaneous, lighthearted, and incidental approach to picture-taking than was previously possible, as suggested by this array of early snapshots.
Lisa Hostetler, Ph.D.
Curator in Charge, Department of Photography
Label for A History of Photography [Rotation 1]
May 9–September 28, 2014
