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Auction #114 begins on 11 Apr 2024

Leopold GODOWSKY [INVENTOR-MUSICIAN-PHOTOGRAPHER]

Over 700 3D slides of international travel by Godowsky and his wife

co-inventor of modern color photography and renowned musician

Published: USA, 1940- 50’s

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About 700 Kodachrome Stereo slides in double Baja case, taken by Leopold Godowsky, the inventor of modern color photography. These are some of the earliest Kodachrome slides taken by the inventor in his worldwide travels. The total is taken from the summary on the front of the case, these images were not counted individually. Slides are 1 1/2 x 4" each while the case measures 10 1/2 x 10 1/2 x 10

Leopold Godowsky Jr. (May 27, 1900 – February 18, 1983) was an American violinist and chemist, who together with Leopold Mannes created the first practical color transparency film, Kodachrome.

Godowsky put his invention to test, the co-inventor of modern color photography travelled the world with his faithful stereo camera.

From Bali to Russia, Leopold shot hundred of pictures, that ended in the collection of Thurman F. Naylor. In 2007, the Naylor collection was dispersed at auction.
All the photographs were taken with Kodachrome film.

A scientist and an artist, Godowsky studied violin at UCLA and became a soloist and first violinist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the San Francisco Symphony Orchestras. He also enrolled at UCLA to study physics and chemistry. He performed jointly with his father, Leopold Godowsky, one of the great pianists of the early twentieth century,

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