The 1% Is Us
With the touch of a button I eliminate 500,000 jobs- watch! Ever use an ATM? I am old enough to remember when, if you needed cash (and who did not), you went to the bank and stood on line...
Read moreThe Sound of Silence on Thanksgiving Day
When my father died a few years ago, I inhereted his massive collection of 35mm slides.From 1952 until the mid 1970s, he, like most people of that era, had recorded the significant events in our lives – trips, birthday...
Read moreUndefeated champion 1889-2012 Watching the Olympics here in the UK (where I get to see them in real time and not have to wait 6 hours for NBC to deign to let me see them), one cannot be struck...
Read moreInstagram 1 Billion, Kodak 0
photo courtesy Keith Kay, Facebook Yesterday, Facebook bought Instagram, a company that was founded a little more than a year ago, has 20 employees and no income, for $1 billion. Admittedly, a billion dollars isn’t what is used to...
Read moreKodak and Cambodia – Nothing Lasts Forever
Also the set for Raiders of the Lost Ark This week we are in Angkor Wat, near Siem Reap in central Cambodia. The first time I was here was in 1992 with David Kennerly. We were shooting one of...
Read moreThe Tragedy of Kodak
Open Me First When Christmas time came around, the infamous KODAK box had a tag on it that said “open me first’, so that you could take pictures of the everyone opening the rest of their gifts. Yesterday, Kodak’s...
Read moreKodak, Youtube and the Future of Video
You push the button, we do the rest In 1888, George Eastman received a patent for photographic film on a roll. He had been a bank clerk in his 20s, and became enamored with photography. As soon as he...
Read moreYou Push The Button
Kodak….. a good idea at the time In 1888 George Eastman launched Kodak with the motto “You push the button, we do the rest”. Although photography had been around for a while, it was, until Eastman, an expensive and...
Read moreSic Transit Gloria Mundi
Unfortunately, to me it will always be Pan Am, even if Pan Am is gone. As is TWA. As is Polaroid. As is Lehman Brothers. As no doubt soon will be Chrysler, The New York Times, Ford, Kodak and someday in the not...
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What happened? There is a lesson for newspapers here. Kodak once meant photography. You didn’t even have to ask. The red K in the yellow field was recognized and respected worldwide. Say Kodak and you said photography. Founded by...
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