Nicolas Le Guern

Part-time lecturer

Evry Val d'Essonne

FR

Biographie

Nicolas Le Guern is a part-time lecturer at the university of Evry and a technical manager in the photographic industry. A graduate of the ENSLL and the EHESS, he completed a PhD in 2017 at De Montfort University, Leicester, about the organization of Kodak research in Europe. His main areas of interest are the invention of photography, the photographic industry and its relationship with the cinematographic industry, the processes of innovation and the circulation of photographic knowledge.

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European Research in Kodak’s Early Years

For nearly a century, knowledge management by the Kodak company relied on the circulation of technological information between the US and Europe. The firm’s global influence on visual culture was largely shaped by strong transatlantic connections.