About patience....ask a tree

photo: Carlos Amorim

Bowie at Konsthallen....

Kamsar....2016

photo: Carlos Amorim

Kodak signs....a rarity

A common sight anywhere in the world not long ago.

FOTOCOLOR....

..a shop of dreams in the 1960`s (?), at Rua do Ouro, 291-293 photo: Horácio Novais

Photo shop....

 ..only a few left

Brownie Six-20 Model F....

Made in London, 1955 - 1957

Ilha do Sal...

photo: André Amorim

The artist pair....

..the Swedish zeitgeist of the 1950s in a beautiful photo by Olle Waller

Merry Christmas....

photo by Dorothea Lange, september 1935

"Texas tenant farmer in Marysville, California, migrant camp during the peach season. 1927 made seven thousand dollars in cotton. 1928 broke even. 1929 went in the hole. 1930 still deeper. 1931 lost everything. 1932 hit the road. 1935, fruit tramp in California."

In Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division

Rarity....

 ..a shop with Kodak signs in 2023

La chanteuse....

Françoise Hardy, 1969

"Girls in the windows"....

New York, 1960, by Ormond Gigli

Happy Christmas.....

USA,1930`s by Dorothea Lange

Rossio 1965....

 ..by Armando Serôdio

Manoel de Oliveira....

Rua do Carmo....

..1960. Photo by Armando Serôdio

Photo Shop....

Götaplatsens Foto, at Kungsportsavenyn 45, since 1965 (not so many left)

San Francisco,1956....

..photo by Fred Lyon

Recent history....

Not long ago, Kodak signs could be found all over the world. The company held a dominant position in photographic film for more than a century. Although Kodak developed the first handheld digital camera in 1975, the product was dropped for fear it would threaten Kodak's main income; its photographic film business. That attempt to “delay the future", was certainly a huge business mistake and the digital era would thirty-seven years later send the company nearly into bankruptcy. In 2014, Kodak negotiated with movie studios for an annual movie film order guarantee to preserve the last source of movie film manufacturing in the United States. Kodak announced in 2018 that the 135 and Super 8 format of Ektachrome is available again. However....the Kodak signs are gone everywhere.