George Eastman: A Biography
by Brayer, Elizabeth
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0801852633
- ISBN 13
- 9780801852633
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About This Item
Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. Cloth, xiii, 637 pages, illustrations, portraits; 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. "This life of George Eastman is the first biography since 1930 of the man who transformed the world of photography. As a 23-year-old bank clerk, Eastman bought his first camera and began simplifying the cumbersome and messy wet-plate process. With only two years' experience, he patented a dry-plate coating machine and began selling photographic plates. Soon, the business was doing so well that he quit his job at the bank and started his own company. Eastman's success was based in part on his own inventions, but even more on his ability to raise capital, recruit technically skilled employees, sell his own products, and outmaneuver his competitors. In this revealing and informative new biography, Brayer shows us how such key innovations as roll film and the light, hand-held camera helped the Eastman Kodak Company dominate the world market./ Elizabeth Brayer has been Eastman historian at George Eastman House, International Museum of Photography and Film. She writes about the history of central and western New York state." - Publisher.. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Collectible.
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- LEFT COAST BOOKS (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 111963
- Title
- George Eastman: A Biography
- Author
- Brayer, Elizabeth
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 0801852633
- ISBN 13
- 9780801852633
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Place of Publication
- Baltimore, MD
- Date Published
- 1996
- Size
- 8vo
- Keywords
- COLLECTIBLE
- Bookseller catalogs
- XXX / COLLECTIBLES; Photography / Individual Photographer; Photography / History; Photography / Commercial;
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