Eastman House's technical marvel known as its camera collection (Technology Collection) is being honored next Monday, June 15 by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). The vast collection includes a daguerreotype camera signed by Daguerre, an original 1888 Kodak, Ansel Adams’s first cameras, a Technicolor camera that filmed MGM classics, the NASA Lunar Orbiter, the Speed Graphic camera that captured the
flag-raising at Iwo Jima. We dive into the collection, and discuss the history it has caputred with:
- Todd Gustavson, Curator of the Technology Collection at George Eastman House
- Joseph Lawson, President of the Rochester Section of ASME
- Jon Kriegel, History & Heritage Committee, Rochester Section of ASME
- Brad Paxton, a member of Technology Collection Acquisitions Committee at George Eastman House