Click: A Story About George Eastman

by Barbara Mitchell, Jan Hosking Smith (Illustrator)

When George Eastman decided to make photography his hobby, "simple" was hardly the word to describe the pastime. He had to lug 50 pounds of camera equipment around with him, including the fragile glass plates that would become pictures. But resourceful George wasn't one to put up with such inconvenience for long. Click! is the story of how George Eastman developed a camera simple enough for anyone to use―the Kodak, predecessor of today's pocket instamatics―and forever revolutionized photography.

Genres: Biography, Photography, History

56 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1986

Reviews

[Bradley]

Another biography on a character in history that I know nothing about. George Eastman seems somewhat like an oddball (maybe it’s just dry prose), but that’s kinda` how I picture inventors to be anyhow. Ironically the pictures that accompany the novel are hand drawn instead of photographed. Eastman’s contribution to photography as an inventor and businessman is quite a legacy nonetheless.

[Amy Edwards]

Good biography chapter book (with illustrations) on George Eastman. It was fun to see the wonder and amazement of my kids as we read about the early days of photography. For them, growing up in the iPhone era, it is mind-blowing to think about film and emulsions and glass plates and the old way of taking photos. We followed up with a documentary so we could see actual pictures of Eastman and his Kodak cameras. The rhino-charging incident mentioned at the close of the book, which Eastman filmed with an early motion-picture camera, is available to view on YouTube.

[Antony Lui]

This book is similar to the other book I read. It is about George Eastman. It is a non-fiction book. But unlike the other book, it doesn't just list facts. It puts these facts into a story. It was hard to tell whether something was a fact or not because it was in story form. So I had to do some research. But otherwise, it was a great book.