Around 1900 - New technologies - 1st Democratization

The many technological advances, among them the conquest of movement and color, created new users and new vision.

The Kodak camera was introduced to the public in 1888 by George Eastman. "You press we do the rest."

Kodak images
A much larger number of people began to take photographs.
Gathering water lilies, Emerson Gorski 1911
Gathering water lilies, Emerson 1890
Jewish children with their teacher, Samarkand 1911, Prokudin Gorski

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