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Introduction
PHOTOGRAPHY
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Alaia and Surfer, Waikiki 1890
(Bishop Museum)
Kampion,
Page 29
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Surfers and Alaia, Hilo Bay,
Hawai'i circa 1900
(Bishop Museum)
Cropped from Lueras,
page 56 and 57
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John S.B. Pratt
(Kodak photograph) : " Scott Pratt, Waikiki, Hawaii, 1890".
Frizot, Michael
(ed) : A New History of Photography.
Konemann Verlagsgesellsvhaft
mbH. Bonner Str 126, D-50968 Kohn.
English Edition
1998. Page 239.
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Anonymus :
"Sea side
Photographer, circa 1900."
Stereoscopic View,
Private collection.
Frizot, Michael
(ed) : A New History of Photography.
Konemann Verlagsgesellsvhaft
mbH. Bonner Str 126, D-50968 Kohn.
English Edition
1998. Page 182.
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Albert Londe : "Wave,
from in front, 1903."
A six shot sequence
of a small right, location unknown, probably France..
From :
Album
de chronophotographies documentaries [lll], 1903.
Frizot, Michael
(ed) : A New History of Photography.
Konemann Verlagsgesellsvhaft
mbH. Bonner Str 126, D-50968 Kohn.
English Edition
1998. Page 253.
Postcard, Waikiki,
circa 1900.
RIDING
THE SURF AT HONOLULU, HAWAII.
Photograph
: A.R. Gurrey
Walking a
tight rope stretched on top a speeding express train
might afford
some of theexhilaration of Hawaii's distinctive sport.
Here, again,
geography molded the national pastime; for the conformation of the
ocean
bed along the island coast creates the swells that make this sport
popular.
The picture
illustrates only one position of the native rider, who lies
prone, sits.
and even stands on his head on his super-canoe.
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National
Geographic Magazine
August, 1919
Volume XXXVI
Number Two.
The Geography
of Games.
Page 98.
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This paper was prepared
in April -May 2006 response to the recent discovery of a New York newspaper
illustration and report in 1888, entitled "A Gay Queen of the Waves".
Discussion on the
accurarcy of the document varied in opinion
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Kodak
Poster : "At the Seaside, 1925."
Frizot, Michael
(ed) :
A New History
of Photography.
Konemann Verlagsgesellsvhaft
mbH.
Bonner Str 126,
D-50968 Kohn.
English Edition
1998.
Text (below) and
accompanying images, Page 238.
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The
Kodak appealed to the mass market because it was so simple.
It went on
sale in 1888 when it used paper roll film (stripping film) which had to
be processed in the factory. Celluloid. invented in 1861, was produced
in thin sheets for the first time by J. Carbutt and W. Hyatt.
In 1889 Eastman
and his chemist Reichenbach coated long strips of celluloid with a photographic
emulsion. These strips were then rolled onto a spool.
Celluloid
roll film was first sold for use in the Kodak later that year.
The No.1 Kodak
(1889) had an improved shutter, and the No.2 Kodak used roll film, which
produced bigger (90 mm diameter) pictures.
The No. 3
Kodak (1890) was the first Kodak to take rectangular photographs.
In 1891, three
models of Daylight Kodak cameras appeared (these could be loaded in daylight
as the film was protected by a black band).
In 1895 another
novelty appeared, cartridge roll film, which, from 1913, was numbered according
to its format starting trpm 101 size, the system still in use today.
It went with
the Pocket Kodak camera, which also appeared in 1895.
The Brownie
followed in 1900, for people of more modest means, costing one dollar.
It took its
name from characters rnade popular in a cartoon series.
All these
models were box-shaped and usually black.
Folding cameras
had appeared as early as 1890, but the flatter Folding Pocket Kodak of
1897 led the way for a proliferation of different models : the Folding
pocket Brownie, the Folding Hawk-Eye.
The Eastman
Company (which in 1892 became Eastman Kodak) aimed its products at all
c!asses of society, with more expensive cameras like the Cartridge
Kodak (1897) with its three-speed shutter, two viewfinders, and a sliding
front to the No. 4 Panorama Kodak, for panoramic photographs (10 x 30 cm).
The greatest
popularity was enjoyed by the Vest Pocket Kodak 1912) the soldier's camera,
culminating in the
Autographic
versions (1914), which you could write a caption directly onto the negative
after lifting a hinged flap on the back of the camera.
- Michael Frizot.
Below : "How
to use the Kodak in three motions, 1889."
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