FROM CELLULOID TO CELL PHONES
The modern history of still and moving photography is inextricable from the story of the Mac, germinated by the 1979 visit of Steve Jobs and software engineer Bill Atkinson to Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). Five years earlier, PARC’s Alvy Ray Smith had co–created SuperPaint, a program that edited frames rasterized from analog videotape. Smith would go on to co–found the computer graphics division of Lucasfilm, which, in 1986, with money put in by Steve Jobs on leaving Apple, became Pixar.
