The Grand Tour · event 10 of 10

1888

The Kodak camera goes on sale. A hundred-exposure roll-film camera sold with the slogan ‘you press the button, we do the rest’. Photography stops being a specialist activity and the holiday photograph is born, along with the idea of travelling in order to bring back images.

The The Grand Tour era

  1. 1600s
  2. 1719
  3. 1750s
  4. 1786
  5. 1830
  6. 1836
  7. 5 July 1841
  8. 1855
  9. 1869
  10. 1888

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