Kodacolor was the world’s first color negative film sold by Eastman Kodak between 1942 and 1963. Kodak claimed “With this revolutionary new film, anyone - in good sunlight – can take beautiful color snapshots with an ordinary roll-film camera. The cost of the film included “full-color snapshots prints on paper” and the back of every print was stamped ‘Kodacolor Print’. The first wave of prints often had poor color separations with muted tones and the overall purplish and faded yellow colors we have come to associate with old color snapshots. Eastman continually improved the film and printing and as a result many Kodacolor snapshots are as remarkably vibrant today as when they were made nearly 50 years ago.
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Camera Comics was published by U. S. Camera Publishing Corporation between 1944 and 1946. Only 9 issues were created and the comic featured Linda Lens
, woman photographer – the first and only female action adventure photographer - wow! Other characters included Jim Lane, Insurance Investigator, Art Fenton, Grey Comet: Aerial photographer and a teenager named Kid Click. The comic included fact based stories about famous figures in photographic history such as Eadweard Muybridge and George Eastman and instructive articles such as how to build a darkroom and tips for better picture taking.
BLOGS: Artist Unknown Artists John D. Monteith and Oliver Wasow "explore the variety and ubiquity of analog vernacular photography found on the internet".
EXHIBITIONS: Little Pictures Big Lives: Snapshots from the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian, July 1- Sept. 30
The Three Graces: Snapshots of Twentieth Century Women (From the Collection of Peter J. Cohen, Art Institute of Chicago, Oct. 29. 2011-Jan. 22 2012
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