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| Kodak Inventor Steve Sasson Accepts Highest Honor |
 Kodak’s Steve Sasson, inventor of the world’s first digital camera, will accept Germany’s highest honor for imaging, the Cultural Award, from the German Photographic Society (DGPh) at a September 27th ceremony in Cologne. The ceremony takes place during Photokina, the world’s largest photo and imaging trade fair.The DGPh, with over 1,000 members, has represented the cultural interests of photography in Germany since its founding in 1951. “The board of the DGPh unanimously decided to honor Steve Sasson with the Cultural Award for his epic-making invention of the first digital camera,” said Dr. Ulrich Nickel, President, German Photographic Society. “Virtually all digital images today, from still cameras to camera phones, are based on this Kodak development.” Professor Gottfried Jäger, the ceremony’s laudatory speaker added, “His groundbreaking invention marks a watershed in the technical production and handling of images in our time.” Sasson’s pioneering work began in 1975 and the technology employed for producing the first digital camera, using a charge coupled device (CCD) sensor, was patented in 1978. “Steve Sasson’s visionary work changed the way people around the world take pictures and is the foundation for all of today’s digital cameras,” said Antonio M. Perez, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Eastman Kodak Company. “This great honor for Steve underscores the spirit of innovation embraced by our entire technical team, whose contributions continue to make Kodak a world leader in the development of groundbreaking imaging technology.” The Cultural Award has been presented since 1959 to recognize outstanding service to photography in the arts, humanitarian, social, technical, educational or scientific fields. Previous award winners include internationally renowned scientists, inventors, writers, publishers, editors, lecturers, art directors and photographers. This is the sixth recognition Sasson has received for his work on the first digital camera. Last year he was inducted into the U.S. Consumer Electronics Hall of Fame and also received the Visionary Award from the Photographic Manufacturers and Distributors Association (2007), the Distinguished Scholar Award from Peking University’s School of Journalism and Communication (2006), the Progress Award form the Photographic Society of America (2006), and Kodak’s Eastman Innovation Award (2001). Sasson is the fourth Kodak researcher to be honored with the Cultural Award. Previous Kodak recipients were Dr. Leopold Godowsky in 1973, Dr. Wesley T. Hanson in 1977, and Dr. Paul B. Gilman in 1989. Kodak will feature a two-part interview with Steve Sasson on their PluggedIn blog starting today at http://pluggedin.kodak.com as well as a podcast under Technology Briefs at http://kodak.com/go/podcast. About DGPh Based in Cologne, the Germany Photographic Society (DGPh) was initiated in 1951 by L. Fritz Gruber with the cooperation of the city of Cologne and the Association of the German Photographic Industry. The DGPh brings together leading and outstanding personalities in the photographic world for the important purpose of promoting the esteem in which photography is held, and its artistic and scientific applications.Its activities include both the conventional methods of photography and its many different fields of application in art, science, education, journalism, industry and politics, as well as non-conventional methods and new forms of imaging media. For more information, visit www.dgph.de |
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With the slogan "you press the button, we do the rest," George Eastman in 1888 put the first simple camera into the hands of a world of consumers. In so doing, he made what had been a cumbersome and complicated process easy to use and accessible to nearly everyone.
Through the years, Kodak has led the way with an abundance of new products and processes that have made photography simpler, more useful and more enjoyable. Today, our work increasingly involves digital technology, combining the power and convenience of electronics with the quality of traditional photography to produce systems that bring levels of utility and fun to the taking, "making" and utilization of images.
What George Eastman began remains a goal of Eastman Kodak Company today, to provide convenience and quality to our customers so more and more people can experience the special wonders of photography and capture and re-live their more cherished moments.
