Tuesday Talk: Kodak Cameras – A Journey Through the Lens of Time

Name: Tuesday Talk: Kodak Cameras – A Journey Through the Lens of Time
Start: 2024-11-12T14:00:00+00:00
End: 2024-11-12T15:00:00+00:00
Location: Headstone Manor, Pinner View, HA2 6PX Harrow, United Kingdom

Schedule

Tue Nov 12 2024 at 02:00 pm to 03:00 pm

UTC+00:00

Location

Headstone Manor, Pinner View, HA2 6PX Harrow, United Kingdom | Harrow, EN

In this talk Dr Michael Pritchard will look at the history and development of the camera from its origins in the early 1880s to the advent of digital cameras from the 1990s, with a particular emphasis on those made by Eastman Kodak Co from 1888 and Kodak Ltd in the United Kingdom. Many of those Kodak cameras were landmarks in the history of the camera and amateur photography such as the Brownie and Instamatic cameras, but Kodak also made cameras for professional photographers and for specialist purposes. It is perhaps for its amateur cameras – that most of us or our families will have used – and these came in many shapes, sizes and colours, and influenced by industrial designers such as Kenneth Grange. The talk will be heavily illustrated and will also explore how the cameras were sold to snapshotters and amateurs, and how Kodak targeted specific markets such as women and children. It will rekindle memories of past cameras and the types of pictures that we used to take with them, and you are encouraged to bring your own Kodak and other cameras along for comment!