Tag Archives: Graflex

George Eastman House and Edward Steichen’s Autochromes

Here is a short video showing some very rare Edward J. Steichen Autochromes of Charlotte Spaulding that were turned over to the George Eastman House. These are very cool.

Since I’m on the topic of George Eastman House, they also have some really good resources available.

One I like is the Collections Online. Here you can see photographs by such people as Mathew Brady and Alfred Stieglitz.

Another is their podcast. The video above was one of them.

There’s a lot of other information on the eastmanhouse.org web site. Spend some time there.

Cool gift shop too. Now let’s see, do I get the Leica Christmas ornament or the Speed Graphic neck tie? Or both?

Now, I need a trip to New York so I can go check out their theater. For now, I’ll settle for the web site.

Photography Site of the Day – Jon Grepstad

Jon Grepstad has several good resources available. He seems to be devoted mainly to pinhole and large format photography.

His large format page has a link to buy a book to build your own large format camera. He also has some other good large format resources there. Someday I’ll get around to buying the book. I am very intrigued, but for now I have a perfectly good Graflex Super Graphic 4×5 camera and little time build lately.

He has a pinhole photograpy section that has several resources such as a long article on the history of pinhole photography. The one thing I would like to see is larger images.

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Photography Site of the Day – Graflex.org

Graflex.org has information about Graflex cameras such as my Super Graphic as well as all the other Graflex models, such as the Anniversary and Crown graphics. The jewels of the site are the Technical Information, Speed Graphic FAQ, Articles, Cameras, and the Help Board. The Help Board is a useful discussion forum. Get familiar with your back button because there is a great amount of material on this site, but the navigation is a little lacking. Navigation issues aside, this site is worth many hours of study.
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