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Leopold D. Mannes was born in 1899 in New York, United States. His father conducted a music school, and he was trained as a musician, with photography as a hobby.
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Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
In 1920 Leopold went to Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. He earned a degree in physics.
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Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
In 1920 Leopold went to Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. He earned a degree in physics.
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In 1916 Leopold studied at New York's Riverdale School in Bronx, New York, United States. In 1920 he went to Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. He earned a degree in physics.
Career
In 1921 Mannes worked as a professional musician in New York, United States when he began photographic experiments with fellow musician Leopold Godowsky, Jr., whom he had met at the Riverdale School.
They used a kitchen and a bathroom as laboratories, renting space in office buildings in 1924 and 1929. Their earliest attempts to improve color processes involved the use of optical devices and they patented a special lens movement. With the aid of C. E. K. Mees at Eastman Kodak, they experimented with direct color plate and film processes, and their ideas took a new direction when they learned of the Fischer theory of color couplers. Thanks to Dr. Mees, they continued their experiments at Eastman Kodak's Rochester laboratories in 1931.
The most important result of their work was the development of Kodachrome film in 1935, and their basic research led to Kodacolor film and prints (1941), Ektacolor film (1949) and Eastman color negative 35mm film (1949).
