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

by Reese V. Jenkins

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801815886
• ISBN13: 9780801815881
• Release Date: December 1975
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 391 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.