MPC 125 Lecture 24: 24
Document Summary
In 1935 leopold godowsky, jr. , and leopold mannes, two. Laboratories, initiated the modern era of colour photography with their invention of kodachrome film. With this reversal (slide) film, colour transparencies could be obtained that were suitable both for projection and for reproduction. A year later the agfa company of germany developed the. Agfacolor negative-positive process, but owing to world war. Ii the film did not become available until 1949. In 1942 kodak introduced the kodacolor negative-positive film that 20 years later after many improvements in quality and speed and a great reduction in price would become the most popular film used for amateur photography. There are some features in some pictorialist photography that show a sense of the modern: the lack of sharp detail tends to abstract the image; hints of japonisme influence in some works . Finally, photography becomes accepted as an art form and becomes shown in museums and galleries along with other art forms.
