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Author(s): Elizabeth Brayer
ISBN(s): 9781580462471, 1580462472
Edition: Reprint
File Details: PDF, 52.41 MB
Year: 2006
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 1580462472

ISBN 13: 9781580462471

Author: Elizabeth Brayer

Now back in print, this life of George Eastman is the first biography since 1930 of the man who transformed the world of photography. In this revealing and informative work, 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 staying 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.”

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 around the world. 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 becamethe largest contributor to the education of African Americans during the 1920s and the Tuskegee Institute’s most important benefactor.

Elizabeth Brayer lives in Rochester, NY. For the past 18 years she has served on both the George Eastman Legacy and the Landscape committees at the George Eastman House, International Museum of Photography and Film. She writes about the history of central and Western New York State. George Eastman: A Biography was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in 1996.

Table of contents:

Chapter 1. Eastmans and Kilbourns

Chapter 2. An amateur there

Chapter 3. Scoop the world

Chapter 4. “We do the rest”

Chapter 5. England and America

Chapter 6. Prayers and paper wars

Chapter 7. Photos by the mile

Chapter 8. The gay nineties

Chapter 9. Prince Henry and the Earl of East Avenue

Chapter 10. A salute for the czar

Chapter 11. GE versus Albion’s city

Chapter 12. The power of combination

Chapter 13. Crazy about color

Chapter 14. The Garden of Eden

Chapter 15. The house that George built

Chapter 16. From Oak Lodge to Tuskegee

Chapter 17. Dalliance

Chapter 18. Frozen music: GE and his architects

Chapter 19. The platinum-mounted farm

Chapter 20. Mr. Smith goes to college

Chapter 21. “Pull” is a verb

Chapter 22. My hometown

Chapter 23. Manifest destiny

Chapter 24. Over there

Chapter 25. Kodak man to be world’s doctor and dentist

Chapter 26. Music in every direction

Chapter 27. Dear Mr. Eastman

Chapter 28. Trust your organization

Chapter 29. Diminuendo

Chapter 30. “My work is done.”

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