Cameras & what they capture have forever changed our perception of the world & of ourselves. This gorgeous cornerstone volume, created in collaboration with the world-famous George Eastman House, celebrates the camera & the art of the photograph. It spans almost two hundred years of progress, from the first faint image ever caught to the instantaneous pictures snapped by todays state-of-the-art digital equipment. The informative narrative by Todd Gustavson traces the cameras development, the lives of its brilliant but often eccentric inventors & the artists behind the lens. Images & highly descriptive captions for more than 350 cameras from the George Eastman House Collection, plus more than 100 historic photos, ads & drawings, complement the text. Also
Includes:: a foreword by the Director of George Eastman House & essays by Steve Sasson & Alexis Gerard.