Saturday, November 12, 2011

Famous Photographer #15: George Eastman



George Eastman founded the Eastman Kodak Company and he invented roll film. This helped to bring photography to the mainstream. In 1884, he patented the first roll film. He perfected the Kodak camera in 1888. Eastman established the Eastman Kodak Company in 1892 in Rochester, New York. His firm was one of the first to mass-produce standardized photography equipment. In 1889, Eastman created flexible transparent film, which was vital to the film industry. 

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