#Kodak 1A Gift Camera

[mourningmmuse]

This is my piece of object which is really close to my heart and I found this in one of the collections at MET.

No. 1A Gift Kodak- A Camera

My piece of writing:

"A Pocket of Nostalgia"

Sleek obsidian body, Precision-crafted lens, a cyborg's gaze, Capturing frozen moments, eternal phase.

Light bends to its will, a quantum dance, Etching memories on silicon's expanse.

Aperture's gossamer veil unfurls, Admitting but slivers of the whirling world.

In its embrace, time stands still, A singular instant, forever to fill.

[ajl1963]

Teague - Design and Beauty: DVD review

Teague – Design and Beauty: DVD review

[fishstickmonkey]

No. 1A Gift Kodak

Eastman Kodak Company, 1930

George Eastman Museum

from Camera-Wiki:

The art deco style No. 1A Gift Kodak was intended for women, and was designed by Walter Dorwin Teague. It is a special version of the No. 1A Pocket Kodak Junior and was introduced for the Christmas season in 1930.

The brown leather-covered camera has matching brown bellows, brown enamel trim and a patterned lens panel. It came in a cedar box with an art deco enamelled metal pattern on the lid. A similar pattern is on the outer box

[cooperhewitt]

Camera in a Box

Walter Dorwin Teague was a well-established industrial designer by 1928, when the Eastman Kodak Company, engaged him to modernize their line of cameras. Kodak sought Teague based on recommendations by curators from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Having no prior experience in camera design, Teague undertook the assignment after Kodak agreed that he could spend one week each month at their facilities in Rochester, New York to work closely with Kodak’s engineers and learn all he could about cameras and their manufacture. Teague started by redesigning carrying cases for existing lines of cameras, and within two years he went on to design a range of modern-styled cameras for the growing amateur market, including the Beau Brownie box-type camera and the 1A Gift Kodak.

Based on Kodak’s plain looking 1A pocket camera, a folding model with a bellows and lens that could fit in a coat pocket when collapsed, the 1A Gift Kodak used the company’s number 116 roll film that produced 2 1/4 x 4 1/2 inch prints. Kodak produced its gift cameras in limited runs of 10,000, and the 1A Gift Kodak was a special version created expressly for the holiday gift-giving season. Introduced in 1930, along with the Coquette Package comprising a small chrome and blue-enameled camera with matching compact and lipstick case aimed at the feminine market, the larger 1A Gift Kodak looked decidedly more masculine. The rectangular camera housing is covered in brown leatherette, and the front panel over the folding bellows is decorated in a bold rectilinear geometric pattern in chromed metal, tan and brown, punctuated by a red circle-with-overlapping chrome square, almost dead center. The chromed metal and earth-toned geometric decoration carries through to the circular lens ring, visible when the camera is unfolded and ready for use, offering a visual counterpoint to the tapering squares of the bellows behind it. The 1A Gift Kodak came in an elegant ebonized cedar box, about the size of a tabletop cigarette box, the lid covered with a chromed and enameled metal panel that repeated the geometric design on the camera’s face. Teague’s rational geometric shapes referenced modernist trends in art as well as the mechanical, industrial nature of the camera itself. At a cost of $15, the 1A Gift Kodak was affordable to consumers of the time and would have indicated the sophistication and modernity of both the giver and recipient.

  Cynthia Trope is Associate Curator of Product Design and Decorative Arts.

from Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum https://ift.tt/2MQid2F via IFTTT

[bm-decorative-arts]

Camera, No. 1A Gift Kodak, ca.1930, Brooklyn Museum: Decorative Arts

"No. 1A Gift Kodak," bellows type camera in metal case, partially covered in brown leather with rectangular portion over bellows enameled on silver with modernist designs in red, dark brown, and tan. Circular plate around lens also enameled with red, dark brown, and tan. Leather carrying strap attached to one end with metal. CONDITION: Good, a few chips in brown enamel plate covering bellows. Size: In upright, closed position (handle at top, bellows collapsed): 8 1/4 x 3 5/8 x 1 5/8 in. (21 x 9.2 x 4.1 cm) In upright, open position (handle at top, bellows opened): 8 1/4 x 3 5/8 x 6 3/8 in. (21 x 9.2 x 16.2 cm) Medium: Metal, leather

https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/1472

[chillypepperhothothot]

The Gift 1A Kodak camera was specially made for the 1930 Christmas season. It was designed by Walter Dorwin Teague. by thstrand on Flickr.

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[go2google]

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[ajl1963]

Reference Library Update: Home Talent

Reference Library Update: Home Talent

Walter Dorwin Teague, circa 1939. Image from idsa.org.

  December 18th marks the 135th year since the birth of Walter Dorwin Teague. This latest Reference Library update comes from the January, 1939 House Beautiful.The brief article features Teague’s interior design for his apartment in Manhattan’s exclusive River House.  River House (1931) is located at the end of East 52nd Street. When it…

[go2google]

#photography #lens #2734 1930 No. 1A Gift KODAK CAMERA ART DECO w BOX/INSTRUCTIONS WALTER TEAGUE VINTAGE http://go2google.com/product/1930-no-1a-gift-kodak-camera-art-deco-w-boxinstructions-walter-teague-vintage/

[go2google]

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