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- ISBN-10
- 0801852633
- Book Title
- George Eastman: A Biography
- ISBN
- 9780801852633
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN-10
0801852633
ISBN-13
9780801852633
eBay Product ID (ePID)
453240
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
648 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
George Eastman : a Biography
Subject
United States / General, Science & Technology
Publication Year
1981
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Biography & Autobiography, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
2.1 in
Item Weight
23.5 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
95-009513
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"This thoroughly documented and well-organized work traces the whole of Eastman's career and sheds considerable light on his personal life as well."-- AB Bookman's Weekly, "Brayer does not seem to have presented a romaticized or sanitized version of Eastman's entrepreneurial and philanthropic efforts. The text serves as a history of technological revolution in the photographic medium and the emergence of big business via the Kodak empire. It is also a detail-rich look at turn-of-the-century central New York."-- Library Journal, "[A] detailed survey of a rich and multifaceted life based on the vast storehouse of available information."--Merle Rubin, Christian Science Monitor, "Brayer's big book triumphantly mines Eastman's extensive correspondence and reports of those who knew him well. It is a complex and frequently sparkling story of invention, industrial growth in a changing America, personally managed philanthropy, and a little-known, intriguingly complex personality. The carefully selected photographs are well reproduced."-- American Enterprise, "Brayer's admirably detailed biography is a fine work of reference. Personalities, social history, sicence: all are meticulously documented... a very welcome addition to one's biography shelves."--Susan Elkin, Literary Review, "No review, brief or extensive, can do justice to Elizabeth Brayer's magisterial biography of the man who revolutionized photography and, thus, our view of the world... Ms. Brayer's highly detailed account of Eastman Kodak's accomplishments and its founder's private life -- he loved art and classical music, established a famous conservatory, set up special clinics for children and became the most important donor to the Tuskeegee Institute -- make this an indispensable study of a man and his work."--Lee Milazzo, Dallas Morning News, ''No review, brief or extensive, can do justice to Elizabeth Brayer's magisterial biography of the man who revolutionized photography and, thus, our view of the world... Ms. Brayer's highly detailed account of Eastman Kodak's accomplishments and its founder's private life -- he loved art and classical music, established a famous conservatory, set up special clinics for children and became the most important donor to the Tuskeegee Institute -- make this an indispensable study of a man and his work.'' -- Lee Milazzo, Dallas Morning News
Dewey Edition
20
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
338.7/61681418/092
Synopsis
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 ......, 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. More importantly, Brayer draws a vivid portrait of the man behind the money. Eastman worked hard at keeping out of the limelight and even insisted that his donations be kept anonymous, prompting the Boston Globe to call him "America's most modest and least- known millionaire." His aggressive business personality was a sharp contrast to his personal life: Eastman once joked that it was his goal to take two six-month vacations in a year. He would regularly forsake the office to bicycle around Europe or ride a stagecoach through the snowy trails of Yellowstone Park. He was an art lover, who once bartered 60 shares of Kodak stock in the 1890s for a painting he felt he must have, and a classical music enthusiast, who built a school for the training of virtuosos. Despite his retirement in 1925, Eastman showed little sign of slowing down. Making money had been interesting, but putting money to work became more so. In the 1920s he designed a special camera for use in orthodontia and established elaborate dental clinics for needy children in Rochester, London, Paris, Brussels, Stockholm, and Rome. He oversaw the building of the Eastman Theatre and the Eastman School of Music. His contributions built a new campus for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a new medical school for the University of Rochester. Finally, he became the largest contributor to the education of African Americans during the 1920s and the Tuskeegee Institute's most important benefactor., 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. More importantly, Brayer draws a vivid portrait of the man behind the money. Eastman worked hard at keeping out of the limelight and even insisted that his donations be kept anonymous, prompting the Boston Globe to call him ''America's most modest and least- known millionaire.'' His aggressive business personality was a sharp contrast to his personal life: Eastman once joked that it was his goal to take two six-month vacations in a year. He would regularly forsake the office to bicycle around Europe or ride a stagecoach through the snowy trails of Yellowstone Park. He was an art lover, who once bartered 60 shares of Kodak stock in the 1890s for a painting he felt he must have, and a classical music enthusiast, who built a school for the training of virtuosos. Despite his retirement in 1925, Eastman showed little sign of slowing down. Making money had been interesting, but putting money to work became more so. In the 1920s he designed a special camera for use in orthodontia and established elaborate dental clinics for needy children in Rochester, London, Paris, Brussels, Stockholm, and Rome. He oversaw the building of the Eastman Theatre and the Eastman School of Music. His contributions built a new campus for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a new medical school for the University of Rochester. Finally, he became the largest contributor to the education of African Americans during the 1920s and the Tuskeegee Institute's most important benefactor.
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TR140.E3B73 1996
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