These round pictures were some of the first candid snapshots

Image: National Media Museum/Kodak Museum

For more than half a century after its invention, photography was the exclusive domain of professionals and skilled enthusiasts, requiring bulky, expensive equipment and extensive training to capture and develop an image

That changed in 1888 with George Eastman’s creation of the Kodak camera. The device was a wooden box covered in leather, small and light enough to be carried by hand. Inside was a roll of film with enough room for a hundred photographs. To take a picture, one needed to simply turn a key to wind the film, pull a string to set the shutter, point the lens in the direction of the subject, and press the button Read more...