American Photography Video Notes

-Brownie

• small solid camera worth a dollar
• allowed middle class to take photos
• moved on from formal portraits

-Picture post cards

• free postacrd making
• spead news of peoples families
• incited photos in newspaper

-National geographic

• first magazine with pictures
• increadsed viewers

-Edward Curtis

• photographed Native Americans
• staged the photos and dressed them up
• non-realistic images of thier lives

-Used photograhy to document work efficentcy
-National Labor Committee awareness
-Straight photography- included elements and priciples(realistic)
-WWI photos to increase moral