Photographers:
Connections:

Snapshots


 
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Contents

Understanding the snapshot
1Introduction to snapshots
2Photograph album - An Unknown Street Photographer in Paris (1896)
Snapshot disasters
3The Roz Leibowitz Collection: Snapshot Disasters
Kodak
4Early Kodak camera formats
5Snapshot cameras
6Photographic Simplicity - Bulls-Eye Kodak
7The Kodak Camera
8Kodak advertising
9New Kodak Cameras. You press the button, we do the rest. (1890)
10The Kodak
Themes
11Snapshots: Landscapes
12Snapshots: Mountains
13Snapshots: Trees
14Snapshots: Abstract
Photographers
15Kenneth Forbes: Snapshots taken in Mexico (1936)
Desire to be paid
16Edward P. Tobie: Photographing Indians
17Septima M. Collis: Kodak'd by Miss M.D. Beach
Poetry
18To My Sweetheart's Kodak (1890)
Songs
19My Little Snapshot Album (ca 1938)
Humour
20The Young Kodak Fiend
The snapshot aesthetic
21Snapshot aesthetic
22Diaristic photography

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