Kodak: 130 years of history
From the invention of film stored in rolls to the creation of the first digital camera, Kodak has been one of the most innovative photography companies for more than a century. But it has struggled to ...
Embracing The Mothers Of Invention
I'll admit it: I'm sometimes smugly entertained by the older generation's reaction to the fads of the Web. "Facebook? Why on earth would I want other people to know about my private life?" "Twitter? Who's got the time for that nonsense?"
The "Eye of America" Takes Two-Story-Tall Pictures [Video]
# photography To celebrate the 200th birthday of the invention of the camera, photographer Dennis Manarchy built one of his own. It looks just like a classic film camera with a wooden frame, leatherette, and brass hardware but, oddly, I don't remember cameras normally being 35-feet long. More »
The Gigantic "Eye of America" Takes Two-Story-Tall Photos [Video]
# photography To celebrate the 200th birthday of the invention of the camera, photographer Dennis Manarchy built one of his own. It looks just like a classic film camera with a wooden frame, leatherette, and brass hardware but, oddly, I don't remember cameras normally being 35-feet long. More »
All is not as the camera captures it
Modernist critic Clement Greenberg (1909-1994) might have taken issue with medium-blurring works by ...
The Facebook Eye
Like photography before it, social media changes the way we perceive the worldEmile Zola famously stated back in 1901, "In my view, you cannot claim to have really seen something until you have photographed ...
Review: Phillips Collection show provides perspective to photos’ role in paintings
Posters advertising the Phillips Collection’s large and intriguing exhibition, “Snapshot: Painters and Photography, Bonnard to Vuillard,” invite the prospective audience to misread much of what is subtle and compelling about this show. Juxtaposing a photograph and painting by the Dutch artist George Hendrik Breitner , both showing a young woman wrapped in a kimono on a sumptuous sofa, this ...
How Kodak Failed
A new book by Vince Barabba, a former Kodak executive, offers insight on the choices that set Kodak on the path to bankruptcy. Barabba?s book, ?The Decision Loom: A Design for Interactive Decision-Making in Organizations,? also offers sage advice for how other organizations grappling with disruptive technologies might avoid their own Kodak moments.
Kodak files for bankruptcy protection
Company that pioneered the digital camera eventually brought down by its failure to invest in its own ground-breaking invention