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Brownie camera and Post cards 1900
The Brownie camera made its debut at the turn of the twentieth century and sold for one dollar. One hundred thousand of them were purchased during the first year alone. The Brownie helped to put photography into the hands of amateurs and allowed the middle class to take their own snapshots as well. They would send post cards to send news to people. -
Stieglitz 1902
Photographers would make photos look like hand made art to show that they're real artist. And that it's not just pushing buttons. -
1905 National Geographic
Company was losing money and used colored photos to introduce a new form of art to people. Which then in turn caused their subscribers to go from 3,000-250,000 -
Edward Curtis 1908
Took photos of Indians for history and for people to see how diverse or how someone may live. But he also dressed them up if they didn't look "Indian" enough. -
Frank's motion study 1911
He used photos to study his workers and other companies workers to show how they could improve the way they work. He even started the phrase "scalpal please." -
1913 pictures used to create "stars" like Valentino and Babe Ruth
These pictures was used to show people that "stars" were real and isn't just a made up person. Also gave people a understanding that they're just like us. And photos basically made famous people famous. -
1915 Paul Strand and Straight Photography
was a photographer whose work influenced the emphasis on sharp-focused, objective images in 20th-century American photography. Strand advocated "straight photography," and photographed street portraits to city scenes, machine forms, and plants with his distinctive clarity, precision, and geometric form. -
ww1 Government censorship of war photos 1917
These included images that might have revealed troop movements or military capabilities, pictures that were liable to be used in enemy propaganda, or those that could adversely affect military or public morale.The objective of wartime censorship was to prevent the exposure of sensitive military information to the enemy -
1919 first tabloids
It was the first U.S. daily printed in tabloid format. It reached its peak circulation in 1947, at 2.4 million copies a day. The entire 150,000-issue run sold out throughout the city, but the fledgling paper could hardly be deemed a success. What readers got for their money on that June 26 was a hodgepodge of content seemingly tossed together for no other reason than to stand apart from the nearly 20 other dailies on the stand. -
1920’s Modernism used in print ads
The most popular ways to advertise in the 1920s included newspapers and magazine ads. People would spend money on advertising their brand across billboards, shop windows, and movie theater advertisements. The main design of each ad was to appeal to the everyday person. -
Laye 1920s Life Magazine uses photos to tell a story (photo essay) Edgerton--Stopping Time
A photo essay is a series of images that explores one topic, thought, idea, or subject. This form of storytelling allows photographers to create a visual narrative through a series of photographs, which can be accompanied by text or other storytelling elements but does not require them. -
1930’s wire photos change newspapers: made famous by Lindbergh Trial and death of Roy Rogers
The dawn of Wirephoto and a revolution in photojournalism. In a decade marked by the Great Depression and profound global change, AP introduced the Wirephoto service, bringing news images to newspapers and their readers faster than ever before. -
1936 Farm Security Administration (Roy Stryker) documents the Dust Bowl and the Great Depression, Gordon Parks profiles Ella Watson to combat racial discrimination
Stryker made sure the files of more than 170000 of their photos and negatives found safe haven in The Library of Congress. In 1935, the middle of America's greatest economic collapse, a group of President Roosevelt's advisors, known as the brain trust, set up an agency to help farmers. -
WWII
Two of the most famous photographs immortalized the end of fighting and the stillness of victory: Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima by Joe Rosenthal and Raising a Flag Over the Reichstag by Yevgeny Khaldei. In February 1945, the US army captured the Japanese island of Iwo Jima. f the still pictures sent back to the United States helped to win the battle for public opinion at home, photographs taken for military purposes helped to win the war at the fronts. -
"Family of Man" exhibit
While offering infinitely diverse images of human beings living in the 1950s, it nevertheless emphatically reminds visitors that they all belong to the same big family.The Family of Man thus brings to light the differences between humans but above all it highlights the universal aspect of their feelings and lives. -
1955--Emmett Till’s murder and racism in South
it was the publication of the searing image photographed by David Jackson and first published in Jet magazine, with a stoic Mamie gazing at her murdered child’s ravaged body, that forced the world to reckon with the brutality of American racism. For almost a century, African Americans were lynched with regularity and impunity. Now, thanks to a mother’s determination to expose the barbarousness of the crime, the public could no longer pretend to ignore what they couldn’t see. -
1973 Photography allowed acquisition of data about space and astronomy 1973
Photography using extended exposure-times revolutionized the field of professional astronomical research, recording hundreds of thousands of new stars, and nebulae invisible to the human eye. An amateur astronomer called Andrew Ainslie Common took a long-exposure photograph through his telescope of the Orion Nebula, revealing details in his astrophoto that were normally invisible to the eye. -
Ansel Adams and American Landscapes
One of the most important legacies of Adams is the way in which his photographs contributed to the American conservation movement. His technical expertise and the undeniable beauty of his work paved the way for photography to be exhibited beside traditional painting and portraiture in national galleries.