Images and Enterprise - Technology and the American Photographic Industry, 1839-1925

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.

About the author

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.

Product details

• Authors: Reese V. Jenkins
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.11.1987
• EAN: 9780801835490
• ISBN: 978-0-8018-3549-0
• No. of pages: 391
• Series: Johns Hopkins Studies in the H; Johns Hopkins Studies in the H
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches