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A celebration of the "lover of the art." From the elite Victorian hobbyist to the everyday snapshot revolution, witness how the democratization of the camera changed our visual social record forever.

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Contents

Introduction
1Introduction to amateur photography
2Amateur Photographers in China: Sketches by the Rev. R. O'Dowd Ross-Lewin, Chaplain R.N. (7 March 1891)
3Autochromes: Amateurs
4Amateur photography and war
5Coventry-rotary, Photo-tricycle, M.D. Rudge and Co. (Great Britain)
Kodak
6Kodak advertising
7Early Kodak camera formats
Photographers
8Robert Henry Cheney: The country houses and architecture of England (1850s)
9Gabriel de Rumine: Travels in the Mediterranean (1858-1859)
10Alexandrine Tinne (1835-1869)
11Photograph album - An Unknown Street Photographer in Paris (1896)
12Lady Ottoline Morrell: Children cavorting at Garsington
13Edward Linley Sambourne: Photographs as a source for cartoons and illustrations
14Arthur FitzGerald Cochrane: Venice
15Donald M. Mennie: Pictorialist China
16Jules Lejeune: Belgian amateur photographic diary (1920-1922)
Camera Clubs
17Camera clubs and get-togethers of photographers
Photographic Exchange Clubs
18Photographic Exchange Clubs
19Amateur Photographic Exchange Club
Museums
20Museums and the amateur

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