[Event] Japan Camera Museum announces special exhibition "Camera Greats" – Digital Camera Watch

Louis Daguerre, Hikoma Ueno, Oscar Barnac, etc.

(Upper left) Hikoma Ueno (upper middle) Louis-Jacques Mande Daguerre (upper right) Oscar Barnac (lower left) Giroud Daguerreau Type camera" (lower right) "Leica 0" (background) Letter written by Daguerre It will be held until October 16th (Sun).

Introduction panels of the "great men", the cameras and photography-related materials they devised, and the many cameras that developed as a result of their inventions will be exhibited.

The exhibition will include Johann Heinrich Schulze, who discovered the photosensitivity of silver chloride, Joseph Nicephore Niepce, who is said to be one of the inventors of photography, Louis-Jacques-Mande Daguerre, and William Henry Fox.・The names of Talbot, Oscar Barnack, who designed a small precision camera, and Hikoma Ueno, one of Japan's first photographic researchers, are listed.

The museum has a permanent exhibition of the Giroud Daguerreotype camera invented by Louis-Jacques-Mande Daguerre and the small precision camera test model Nur-Leica designed by Oscar Barnack. .

Also, in previous special exhibitions, the camera used by William Henry Fox Talbot and the actual "Ur-Leica" designed by Oscar Barnack, which is said to be the only surviving camera in the world, are on display. It has been done.

The location of the Japan Camera Museum is JCII Ichibancho Building (1st basement floor), 25 Ichibancho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo. Open from 10:00 to 17:00 (closed on Mondays. Tuesday if Monday is a public holiday). Admission is 300 yen for adults, free for junior high school students and younger.

In addition, during the summer vacation period, we will hold a “Participation with Parents and Children! Camera and Photo Workshop”. For elementary and junior high school students, we have announced four courses that are suitable for making memories during summer vacation and free research at school.