Kodak and the Lens of Nostalgia

by Nancy Martha West and Nancy West

Book Overview

The advertising campaigns launched by Kodak in the early years of snapshot photography stand at the center of a shift in American domestic life that goes deeper than technological innovations in cameras and film. Before the advent of Kodak advertising in 1888, writes Nancy Martha West, Americans were much more willing to allow sorrow into the space of the domestic photograph, as evidenced by the popularity of postmortem photography in the mid-nineteenth...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813919592
• ISBN13: 9780813919591
• Release Date: May 2000
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 242 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher