The Indianapolis Museum of Art is showcasing a collection of 210 photographs taken by seven late 19^th-century French artists with the first handheld amateur camera, the Kodak. “Snapshot: Painters and Photography, Bonnard to Vuillard” will run through September 2, 2012.

Although George Eastman introduced the Kodak to put photography in the hands of the masses, which he did, some of the earliest enthusiasts for the camera were avant-garde painters in Europe. For these painters, the Kodak had two uses: it became a tool of the painting process and it recorded the family and private lives of the French painters featured in the exhibit.

For more information, visit http://www.imamuseum.org/snapshot.

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