ナショナルジオグラフィックのインスタグラム(natgeo) - 12月15日 05時20分

Bankrupt Kodak Store, Atlanta, Georgia. Photo by Peter Essick. When George Eastman invented roll film in 1888, it changed photography forever. Photographers now didn't have to carry their darkroom into the field, and process the individual photograph within a few minutes. The new film was dry and portable and could be processed later. Also, roll film made possible motion pictures and a whole new industry was born. The wet plate collodion process, which was invented by Frederic Archer in 1851, was obviously much more difficult and produced an inferior image, so it soon fell into oblivion. So much so, that until recently no one even knew how the wet plate process worked. A 19th century enthusiast, John Coffer, is often credited with reviving wet plate. He discovers the chemical formulas written down by an early photographer, Peter Britt , housed in a museum in Jacksonville, Oregon. When I started in photography in 1975, Kodak was the great yellow father. Just about everything I bought came in a yellow box. And as recently as 10 years ago, Kodak had a net worth more than Apple at the time. So it is certainly sad and somewhat shocking to hear that Kodak is now in bankruptcy and looking to sell what is left of its film division. I'm sure business schools will be using Kodak as a case study for years to come of a business that failed to adapt to a changing world. It is a little hard to comprehend how poorly Kodak has fared of late, since the signs of photography's divorce from chemistry were everywhere to be seen. This photo of the Kodak store taken with the wet plate process has some obvious and intended irony. I'm sure Frederic Archer would like it. He would have finally gotten some revenge.

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