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From the world-famous Eastman House comes a lavish, expansive guide to nearly 200 years of photographic invention and innovation. Richly visual and wonderfully informative, it showcases 500 groundbreaking cameras from the museum's collection that forever changed our perception of the world, and of ourselves.  Todd Gustavson, curator of technology at the George Eastman House, organizes the cameras into genealogical categories--from detective to digital, stereo to subminiature. Alongside the 35mm, you'll see curiosities like stereoscopic cameras, postcard cameras, and spy cameras hidden in watches, buttons, and fountain pens. Essays by experts in the field--including Robert Shanebrook, Martin Scott, and Mark Osterman--trace the technological development of the camera and provide insight into the innovators behind the lens.

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""With so many pages of beautiful photographs and text, this is a book that any photographer or camera collector would want to own . . . Highly recommended."" --Choice

With so many pages of beautiful photographs and text, this is a book that any photographer or camera collector would want to own . . . Highlyrecommended. --<i>Choice</i>

With so many pages of beautiful photographs and text, this is a book that any photographer or camera collector would want to own . . . Highlyrecommended. -- Choice

With so many pages of beautiful photographs and text, this is a book that any photographer or camera collector would want to own . . . Highly recommended. -- Choice

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Todd Gustavson is curator of technology at the George Eastman House in Rochester, New York. He is responsible for the cataloguing, storage and maintenance of one of the world's largest collections of photographic and cinematic equipment, containing more than 20,000 artifacts. He has curated or co-curated many exhibitions for the museum, including the critically acclaimed travelling exhibition ""The Brownie at 100.""

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