lot 606 – CAMERAS by Brian Coe
Toronto. .. to paraphrase the Walter Lord tale, “A Night to Remember” about the Titanic – I Read it about sixty or so years go. One of the books in today’s auction is CAMERAS by the late Brian Coe, curator of Kodak’s Museum in the UK at the time.
Other soft cover books by Brian were the principle basis for the talk I gave years ago during the infamous “dog and pony” shows I did with the late Don Douglas and his Ansco collection.
A copy of “CAMERAS” is lot 606 in today’s PHSC fall estate auction. It is a delightful book covering the history of cameras from the 1830s to the days of instant pictures. What adds to its appeal is the profuse use of line drawings and colour drawings of epic camera designs and how their features work.
Someone will take home a great book from 1978!
