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Kodak

Kodak Brownie

Introduced by Eastman Kodak in February 1900 at a price of one dollar, making snapshot photography accessible to the general public for the first time. The original was a simple cardboard box camera with a single convex-concave lens taking 2 1/4-inch square pictures on roll film. Over its 86-year production run (1900 to 1986), Kodak released 125 different Brownie models across multiple film formats.

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Seydou Keïta

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First camera, a 6x9 box camera given by his uncle Tiemoko in 1935 when he was 14; later switched to a 13x18 view camera for studio portraits
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Last updated March 20, 2026