American Photographers
In 1839, Louis Daguerre invented a process by which a permanent image could be placed on a chemically treated plate. This daguerreotype revolutionized the concept of photography. A pioneer maker of gelatin dry plates, George Eastman developed a machine to uniformly coat the plates. In the mid 1880's he developed paper that could be coated with the gelatin (1st rolls of film.) In 1888, he designed a box camera that anybody could operate, the No. 1 Kodak, the perfect amateur camera.
George Eastman - Kodak camera Original daguerreotype box camera - 1839
 | Documenting the Civil War - Mathew Brady, Timothy Sullivan and Alexander Gardner |
| Documenting the Western Frontier - William Henry Jackson, Timothy Sullivan and Alexander Gardner |
| Preserving and Vanishing Way of Life (Cowboys and Indians) -Erwin Smith and Edward Curtiss |
| Documenting Turn of the Century City Life - Detroit Publishing Company and Alfred Genthe |
| Social Idealism and the Camera - Jacob Riis and Louis Hine |
| Documenting African -American Life -Frances Benjamin Johnston, Gordon Parks, Wayne Miller and Charles Moore |
| Photography as Art - Alfred Stiglitz |
| Photography and the Depression - Dorothea Lange and Walker Evans |
| Documenting War -Robert Capa, W. Eugene Smith, David Douglas Duncan and Larry Burroughs |
| Photography and Life Magazine - Alfred Eisenstadt |