Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
George Eastman
Standard Name: Eastman, George
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8 September 1871: Richard Leach Maddox, an English physician,...
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8 September 1871
Richard Leach Maddox
, an English physician, described in the British Journal of Photography his invention (using gelatin in place of collodion) of a successful dry plate process.
Williams, Val, and Susan Bright. How We Are: Photographing Britain. Tate Publishing, 2007.
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1880: George Eastman, an American, perfected the...
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1880
George Eastman
, an American, perfected the use of dry plates in photography and set up a company to produce them in industrial quantities.
Encyclopædia Britannica Online. http://www.britannica.com/.
Williams, Val, and Susan Bright. How We Are: Photographing Britain. Tate Publishing, 2007.
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August 1888: Amateur photography gained widespread popularity...
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August 1888
Amateur photography gained widespread popularity with George Eastman
's introduction of the first Kodak camera.
Hannavy, John. Masters of Victorian Photography. David and Charles, 1976.
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Gernsheim, Helmut, and Alison Gernsheim. The History of Photography From the Earliest Use of the Camera Obscura in the Eleventh Century up until 1914. Geoffrey Cumberlege, 1955.
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The History of Kodak. http://www.kodak.com/global/en/corp/historyOfKodak/historyIntro.jhtml?pq-path=2687&pq-locale=en_CA.
Gernsheim, Helmut, and Alison Gernsheim. The History of Photography From the Earliest Use of the Camera Obscura in the Eleventh Century up until 1914. Geoffrey Cumberlege, 1955.
