Title: MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING
Product review: I looked so forward to reading this book. But, I became deeply disappointed. The book jumps into Eastman and his interest in photography, but a truly good writer would've done a short essay, maybe a chapter, on the history of photography from the very beginning. It could then evolve up to the present moment when Mr. Eastman came along and got his interest. It also spends too much time on details about trivial things: a whole chapter dedicated to the building of his home, while nothing on the development in photography. I finally put the book down and stopped reading it halfway into it. If you want to know about Eastman, the man, it is fairly good; but, if want to know about the history and development of photography with Eastman as the center point, and how and why he changed it- save your money. All I really gathered from it was that he became the "Standard Oil" of the American photography business.
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