Twitter got to celebrating #NationalCameraDay on Wednesday, honoring imaging technology both recent and historical. Here's some of the best Tweets we found:
#NationalCameraDay: Meet LBJ’s photographer, Yoichi Okamoto. Thousands of his photos live on in our archives. pic.twitter.com/DUoV87GHe8
— LBJ Library (@LBJLibrary) June 29, 2016
Happy #NationalCameraDay from Cary Grant pic.twitter.com/UgPOm1JbDX
— Will McKinley 😷 (@willmckinley) June 29, 2016
Happy #NationalCameraDay! A few badass women of film history...
— The Nitrate Diva (@NitrateDiva) June 29, 2016
Alice Guy
Mary Pickford
Dorothy Arzner
Ida Lupino pic.twitter.com/YbeWLHK5zl
Guess what, it's #NationalCameraDay so here's a picture from a photo device of the Pantheon's ceiling in Rome. pic.twitter.com/mbcDY8GF5i
— Nick (@robotpants) June 29, 2016
For #NationalCameraDay, see what it was like to be a Nat Geo photographer in the old days: https://t.co/TdsQmiCU1v pic.twitter.com/NhgX2nHHym
— Nat Geo Photography (@NatGeoPhotos) June 29, 2016
It's from way before you were taking selfies: https://t.co/a9CGzBPl0L via @ransomcenter #NationalCameraDay
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— UT Austin (@UTAustin)
A photo of someone taking a photo of someone for #NationalCameraDay. https://t.co/7VqHPHnhfJ
— VSCO (@vsco) June 29, 2016
Image by eliseellison pic.twitter.com/2kHSOx1gBM
#NationalCameraDay ...strike a pose! #photography #dogsoftwitter @dogcelebration @dogisgood pic.twitter.com/pFX8LWwap4
— Lilly the Aussie (@LillytheAussie) June 29, 2016
Live every day like it's #NationalCameraDay https://t.co/7aeNtt0SBt pic.twitter.com/P93HWFsxHM
— DPReview (@dpreview) June 29, 2016
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