11/ interesting detail https://twitter.com/CultWineGrinch/status/1346812761506983939 …
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12/ Initial thread said "20s and 30s" and I truncated to "20s" bc short tweets. I meant both decades, tho. Yes, agree re Browning, HOWEVER, me being me, before I started this thread I googled info on historical photo prices http://www.edinphoto.org.uk/1_early/1_early_photography_-_prices_charged.htm …https://twitter.com/Cary_Bleasdale/status/1346812874790985729 …
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15/ Specifically, the "cheap" camera in 1930s, the Brownie, cost something like 1.5 weeks AVERAGE wage http://www.edinphoto.org.uk/1_early/1_early_photography_-_prices_charged.htm … In the early-1930s, Kodak were charging £2 10s 0d for their basic model, a No 2 Brownie That equates to about £350 in 2009, allowing for inflation.
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16/ So for a working poor person, that might be 3 weeks' wages. How many blue collar, lower middle class / upper middle class people in 1930, do you think, worked for 4 months, saved ALL the discretionary income after rent and food, and blew it on one camera ?
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17/ ...and then worked for another month to save money for one roll of film and 16 prints?
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18/ meh when I link to a fairly comprehensive source, where the guy has clearly done a deep dive and has collected hard numbers, that's not ABSOLUTE proof ... but it has a lot more evidentiary weight than "but the popular myth is ____"https://twitter.com/Cary_Bleasdale/status/1346817708801843200 …
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Cary Bleasdale @Cary_BleasdaleReplying to @MorlockPI think this is incorrect or Brit sources are wrong on this. "...initial price of $1 (equivalent to $31 in 2019) along with the low price of Kodak roll film and processing, ...." The brownie is famous for making photography universal. Although I'd note so is the $900 iphone2 replies 0 retweets 10 likesShow this thread -
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20/ I'm not engaging in nihlism. I'm disagreeing with a bad argument, and providing data. https://twitter.com/twkiter/status/1346819265110962178 …
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