Brian Coe
author
Brian Coe (1930-2007) was a British museum curator and historian of photographic and cinematographic technology. He joined Kodak in 1952, where he helped found the company's education service. He was Curator of the Kodak Museum from 1969 to 1984, building its collection into one of international renown and curating a number of pioneering exhibitions. When the collection moved to the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television in Bradford, he became curator of the Royal Photographic Society's collection in Bath. From 1989 he was special events co-ordinator at the Museum of the Moving Image. Coe wrote widely on the technology of photography and film, including The Birth of Photography (1976), Colour Photography (1978) and The History of Movie Photography (1981). He suffered a serious stroke in 1995 and took no further active part in film and photography. He died on 18 October 2007.[1]
- history of photographic technology
- early photography (1800-1900)
- cinematography and movie photography
- Kodak Museum curation
- popular photography
Books
Works by Brian Coe
- 1977 De opkomst van de fotografie: de geschiedenis van 1800-1900 Dutch edition of Coe's The Birth of Photography (1976), 144 pages, paperback.
- 1976 The Birth of Photography: The Story of the Formative Years, 1800-1900
- 1978 Colour Photography: The First Hundred Years, 1840-1940
- 1978 Cameras: From Daguerreotypes to Instant Pictures
- 1981 The History of Movie Photography
- 1992 Muybridge and the Chronophotographers