Bob Shanebrook graduated from Rochester Institute of Technology and worked at Eastman
Kodak Company for 35 years before retiring in 2003. At Kodak he worked as an industrial
photographer, researcher, product development engineer, manufacturing manager, company
spokesman for Professional Films, and for more than twenty years was a Worldwide Product-
Line Manager for Kodak Professional Films.
His first project at Kodak was a minor role working on the Apollo Lunar Surface Close-up Camera that was used on the Moon during Apollo 11,12, and 14. He also had a minor role on Gambit-3 (KH-8), a reconnaissance satellite. In KAD Research Laboratory he worked on image evaluation, liquid crystals, and electronic imaging devices. In Photographic Technology Division he worked on thermal films, x-ray films, X-Omat Film Processors, and then experimental T-Max Films.
Beginning in 1981 he became engaged in nearly all aspects of Kodak's black-and-white and
color professional film business. As Worldwide Product-Line Manager he was deeply involved
in designing, manufacturing, and commercializing photographic products including:
He was instructed by and later worked on photographic projects with John Sexton and Ansel Adams.
He was on the Board of Directors of the Friends of Photography, Carmel and San Francisco, California.
He is the author of the renowned book Making KODAK Film, 1st and 2nd editions ©2010 and 2016 respectively.
Bob consults in the fields of silver halide technology and photographic history at George Eastman Museum, Rochester, NY. He and his wife Lynne live on Irondequoit Bay, near Rochester, NY. They have two adult children, Stefanie and Adam. He can be contacted at: makingKodakfilm@yahoo.com
© 2019 Robert L. Shanebrook
August 2, 2019