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George Eastman was the founder of the Kodak Company. Eastman was a pioneer of popular photography and would change the world with his inventions in photography.

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Title: George Eastman | International Photography Hall of Fame

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The Eastman Kodak Company created a camera that was affordable and could be brought anywhere. This camera was called the brownie.

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The Brownie was created in 1900 in New York. The Brownie was mass-produced and sent out to the public in stores for everybody to get their hands on.

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Self-Portrait shot by Herman C. Weber (1916)

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Self-Portrait shot by Herman C. Weber (1916)

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This self-portrait by Herman C. Weber shows the quality, color, and size of the pictures the brownie took. It is interesting to go back and see what we started from and what we developed the camera into.

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The Brownie allowed anybody to become a photographer, captured life in public, and connected people that were separated by distance. The Brownie brought photography to the world.

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Title: The Kodak Brownie: The Camera That Made Photography Accessible

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Documentary Photography (1900): Edward Curtis

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Documentary Photography (1900): Edward Curtis

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Edward Curtis was a very influential photography to Americans in the beginning of the 20th century. Edward Curtis traveled all over North America to take pictures of nearly all Native American Tribes. In the end, Curtis published a 20 volume set of photographs documenting the lives of Native Americans.

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Why Edward Curtis Documented the lives of Native Americans

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Why Edward Curtis Documented the lives of Native Americans

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During this time, many Americans were continuing to push the Natives further and further west. Edward Curtis wanted to document a group of people that he believed would be gone soon. He wanted to try and save them before the Americans destroyed their way of life.

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This is a photograph taken by Edward Curtis in volume 1 of his 20 volume set. The lady in the photo is wearing traditional clothes. Edward Curtis would dress up the Natives in traditional Native clothes if he didn't like what they were wearing. He didn't want them to look Americanized because they were supposed to be unique and a culture America needed to preserve.

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Edward Curtis gave the Americans a good idea of what Native Americans looked like and let them make assumptions of them based on his photographs. He gave them the image of perfect people. Some Natives didn't like this. They wanted Curtis to show the reality. As impactful as Curtis' pictures were to the Americans, it was just as controversial with the Native American tribes.

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Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946), started the Photo-Secessionist movement also known as Pictorialism in 1902. Pictorialism is an approach to photography that emphasizes the beauty of subject matter and composition. The goal of this was to be creative and break away from the bad and artless photography.

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This picture by Edward J. Steichen captured one of the largest buildings in New York at the time (The Flatiron), the tree branch and the streets wet from the rain. Steichen, Stieglitz, and other pictorialists believed that photography became an art when the camera was used as a tool. Here, Steichen gets in the perfect position at the perfect time and uses the camera as a tool to capture this beautiful picture of New York at midnight.

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Artist: Edward J. Steichen (American (born Luxembourg), Bivange 1879-1973 West Redding, Connecticut)

Medium: Gum bichromate over platinum print

Dimensions: 47.8 × 38.4 cm (18 13/16 × 15 1/8 in.)
Frame: 34 5/8 × 29 5/8 in. (87.9 × 75.2 cm)

Classification: Photographs

Credit Line: Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1933

Accession Number: 33.43.39

Rights and Reproduction: © 2024 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Inscription: Inscribed in pencil on mount, verso C: "The Flatiron 1909 // International Photographic Exhibition, Buffalo, 1910 // Gum Platinum"

Edward Steichen; Alfred Stieglitz

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Edward J. Steichen | The Flatiron | The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Artist: Edward J. Steichen (American (born Luxembourg), Bivange 1879-1973 West Redding, Connecticut) Medium: Gum bichromate over platinum print Dimensions: 47.8 × 38.4 cm (18 13/16 × 15 1/8 in.)Frame: 34 5/8 × 29 5/8 in.

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Pictorialism brought photography into the world of art. Once people were able to see that photography could be a handmade process and had no limits as to what could be made, it became recognized as an art. Art that could be put in a museum and admired.

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Magazine Photography (1905): Gilbert Grosvenor

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Magazine Photography (1905): Gilbert Grosvenor

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Gilbert Grosvenor (1875-1966) built how magazines are published still to this day. Grosvenor was the first full-time editor of the National Geographic magazine.

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The National Geographic magazine's first issue was on September 22, 1888, but didn't really start to become popular until 1905. Grosvenor printed pictures from Tibet and put them in the magazine. This was interesting to everybody because nobody really knew what the rest of the world looked like. It was something that nobody has ever seen which attracted a lot of attention.

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National Geographic Magazine Volume 16: Views of Lhasa

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National Geographic Magazine Volume 16: Views of Lhasa

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One of the photos used by Gilbert Grosvenor was this. A nice picture showing off the city of Lhasa in Tibet.

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Title: National Geographic Magazine/Volume 16/Number 1/Views of Lhasa - Wikisource, the free online library

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National Geographic Volume 16: Views of Lhasa

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Thanks to the National Geographic Magazine, Americans were able to form their impressions on the world and other cultures by examining these photographs. National Geographic would also later go on to pioneer the printing of colored photographs.

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Social Reform Photography (1906): Lewis Hine

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Social Reform Photography (1906): Lewis Hine

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With photography becoming mainstream in the world, photography was starting to have an influence on what people believed. Shortly after printing photographs became possible, Lewis Hine was inspired by Jacob Rils who posted pictures for house reform. Hine, a teacher at the time, was hired by the National Child Labor Committee hoping that photographs could bring nationwide support for their movement.

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The Mill - A general view of spinning room, Cornell Mill. Fall River, Massachusetts. (1908): Lewis Hine

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The Mill - A general view of spinning room, Cornell Mill. Fall River, Massachusetts. (1908): Lewis Hine

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This picture taken by Lewis Hine shows the spinning room with a lot of kids working. Some kids as young as 3 years old. Seeing these kids futures go to waste was angering and garnered a lot of support from the public.

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Newsies - Francis Lance, 5 years old, 41 inches high. He jumps on and off moving trolley cars at the risk of his life. St. Louis, Missouri. (1909): Lewis Hine

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Newsies - Francis Lance, 5 years old, 41 inches high. He jumps on and off moving trolley cars at the risk of his life. St. Louis, Missouri. (1909): Lewis Hine

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At first glance, this picture looks perfectly fine. Just a child on a trolley. However, the description gives the reader all of the details. A kid at 5 years old risking his life to hand out some newspapers.

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Impact of Lewis Hine's Social Reform Photography

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Impact of Lewis Hine's Social Reform Photography

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After traveling all over America to capture these photographs, Lewis Hine put together slideshows and exhibitions and sent them all across the country. Hine's photographs brought lots of attention towards the issue of child labor. The case would go to the state court, then eventually led to federal legislation outlawing child labor.

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In 1908, the Kodak Company once again made an invention that would impact the world of photography greatly. Kodak provided printing on a strong paper base for sending that included an area on the back to send a message.

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This postcard contains pictures of a girl and what she has seen on whatever adventure she was on. The writing says "Wish you were here, J". The postcard allowed these two to still connect with each other even though they were faraway from each other.

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Picture Postcards were a cheap way to send photographs and messages to family and friends. They also fulfilled the function of newspaper photographs and paved the way for photograph montages. In 1908, the U.S. Postal Office said that over 677 million postcards were mailed where the population at the time was approximately 89 million people.

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Time-Motion Studies (1911): Frank Gilbreth

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Time-Motion Studies (1911): Frank Gilbreth

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Frank Gilbreth (1868-1924), had questioned why he was being taught different methods on how to lay bricks. This led him down a path of curiosity to find the most efficient way to lay bricks. Gilbreth used photographs to break down each worker's every single movement. Gilbreth also attached flashing lights to the worker's fingers to see how long a movement will take.

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Frank Gilbreth and the Surgical Subject (1917)

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Frank Gilbreth and the Surgical Subject (1917)

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One of Gilbreth's most famous findings came when he was observing surgeons. Gilbreth noticed that surgeons wasted a lot of time looking for their instruments. He suggested a procedure. That procedure was to have the surgeon keep an eye on the incision while extending an open palm to the nurse and say the famous words "Scalpel, please."

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Impact of Frank Gilbreth's Time-Motion Studies

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Impact of Frank Gilbreth's Time-Motion Studies

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Frank Gilbreth's studies helped increase the efficiency of all workers they studied, hence increasing their output. Their studies also encouraged other companies to maximize the efficiency of their own workers. The result would be a more productive America.

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Paul Strand (1890-1976) was known as the architect of Straight Photography. Strand's style was to utilize the camera to record and bring new perspectives to art. During this time, there was a lot of revolution going on such as cubism, ballet, jazz, etc. Straight photography was the revolution in the photography realm

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Paul Strand's aesthetic became the aesthetic of the 20th century. Do not edit the picture. The way the picture looks when it is taken is the final version. Rather than messing with reality, you had to face it.

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Chair Abstract, Twin Lakes (1916): Paul Strand

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Chair Abstract, Twin Lakes (1916): Paul Strand

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This picture is an example of what Paul Strand did with his pictures. He took the shadows made by a chair railing on the porch and a table and then turned the picture on its side so it was really hard to tell what it was. The element of mystery and the way Strand constructs the picture makes it beautiful.

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What Strand did was help bring photography to an art form like his friend Alfred Stieglitz. Strand's photography was similar to Picasso in the way he used an abstract form. Strand's form of photography would inspire the next generation of photographers like Edward Weston, Imogene Cunningham, Walker Evans, and many more.

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Propaganda Photography (1917): President Woodrow Wilson

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Propaganda Photography (1917): President Woodrow Wilson

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Woodrow Wilson was the 28th President of the United State serving from 1913 to 1921. During this period, the United States would enter World War I. Wilson would introduce propaganda photography to America in this time to get more Americans to support the war cause.

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The intent of propaganda is to influence the audience's opinion on a subject or a person. When Woodrow Wilson introduced propaganda, he was trying to influence America to support the war to and to help by enlisting, sending supplies, etc. The U.S. was not going to win the war with very little support from the people. The U.S. was able to win the war once people became on board with the war cause.

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Destroy This Mad Brute (1917): Harry Hopps

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Destroy This Mad Brute (1917): Harry Hopps

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This poster was one of the most famous propaganda posters during WWI. The Mad Brute is Germany which is holding the Statue of Liberty while also stepping on the words America. This poster influence the public to hate Germany and support the war effort to take down Germany.

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The use of Propaganda Photography would help America win WWI and winning WWI also boosted America's economy significantly bringing America to a world power. Propaganda Photography continued to be used later especially during WWII.

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Tabloid Journalism (1919): Illustrated Daily News, Daily Mirror, and Evening Graphic

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Tabloid Journalism (1919): Illustrated Daily News, Daily Mirror, and Evening Graphic

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Tabloid journalism is a type of journalism that uses small newspapers, big headlines and pictures to attract the public and get the public talking. These stories tend to be focused on celebrities, specifically celebrity scandals. The three biggest tabloids at the time were the Illustrated Daily News, Daily Mirror, Evening Graphic.

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Tabloids were created to get the people talking. Drama and scandals involving celebrities make money. In a way, it was genius. These Tabloids brought a new type of photography to the world, but it broke away from true journalism in a bad way.

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Tabloid Journalism would bring a feature to photography that we use a lot today. That feature is a Composograph. You can get someone's face and put it on something else. Nowadays this is cropping or a face swap. Good things did come out tabloids.

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Celebrity Photography (1920): George Hurrell

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Celebrity Photography (1920): George Hurrell

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George Hurrell (1904-1992) was a photographer best known for his portraits of celebrities, mostly Hollywood movie stars. Hurrell would change the way celebrities were viewed and used in the media forever.

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George Hurrell didn't just take pictures of celebrities. He created stars. They invented the image of celebrities. They defined glamour and made the public fall in love with them.

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Portrait of Greta Garbo (George Hurrell)

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Portrait of Greta Garbo (George Hurrell)

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George Hurrell photographed the biggest celebrities for movie marketing purposes, advertisements, and fashion magazines. One of the big stars was Greta Garbo who at the time was one of the biggest movie stars in Hollywood.

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After seeing fashion magazines boom from having these celebrities headlining their covers, companies started taking photographs of celebrities with their own products. What happened was a boom in sales in all of these companies that had celebrities in their advertisements. The celebrities holding an affordable product makes the public want to buy that product to be just like that celebrity. George Hurrell's celebrity photography changed the way advertisements were created and made celebrities a lot more money than they made doing their jobs.

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U.S. Farm Security Administration (FSA) investigated living conditions of farm workers and their families. The FSA was composed of 11 photographers. Arthur Rothstein, Theodor Jung, Ben Shahn, Walker Evans, Dorthea Lange, Carl Mydans, Russell Lee, Marion Walcott, Jack Delano, John Vachon, and John Collier.

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One of the FSA photographers, Dorthea Lang, is known as one of America's greatest documentary photographers. She is best known for her photographs from the Great Depression and farmworkers.

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The Great Depression was a very tough time for many Americans including farmers. The FSA photographers captured the displaced farmers during the Great Depression. These photographs really showed the impact the Great Depression had on society.

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Over a 6 year period, the FSA photographers produced nearly 250,000 photographs of life in America. This remains the largest documentary photography project of people ever created. At the time, these pictures were used as propaganda for President Roosevelt's campaign. Today, when we think of the Great Depression, we see the faces of the subjects that the FSA took pictures of.

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Ansel Adams (1902-1984), was a photographer and environmentalist. Ansel Adams' goal was to preserve America's wild and scenic areas. With so much industrialization, the beautiful scenic areas of America were bound to be destroyed as well.

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Ansel Adams' most famous photographs were in Yosemite National Park. In his early career, he worked as a member of the Sierra Club. These photographs were unlike what anyone had ever taken at the time. He showed everyone the true beauty of the world and why preserving it was important.

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The Zone system was created by Ansel Adams. The Zone System is a photographic technique for determining optimal film exposure and development. The zone system divides the tonal range of an image from darkest to lightest into 11 different zones. Each zone is assigned a roman numeral. The Zone System allows you to get the right exposure every time without guessing.

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When Ansel Adams, was taking beautiful pictures of America, nobody cared because everyone was focused on the Great Depression and World War II. After World War II when the world had been ripped to shreds, people then started focusing on the preservation of their land. Adams helped show everyone why it was so important to preserve our land.

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In 1935, pictures could be sent around the world through the use of satellites and telephone line shortly after being taken. To be as quick as possible a system was created by the Press. This system required a network of high fluidity telephone lines that were extremely expensive.

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On January 1, 1935, photographs were taken of a dramatic plane crash and sent to 25 cities across the country. These photographs made the headlines and got the public talking about the situation.

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Just after the first wire photo from the plane crash was sent, pictures of the Lindbergh Murder Kidnap Trial was sent all over the country. This photo ensured that the wire photo would pay off because of how many interesting things go on everyday.

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Wire Journalism brought so many new stories to the press. It brought so much money and connected the world. When something happened, everybody in the world could see what happened immediately. Wire journalism tended to make the U.S. more of a united nation as opposed to a more regionalized nation, which it was at the time.

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Arthur Fellig (1899-1968) also known as WeeGee, was a legendary news photographer whose most famous photographs were candid shots of people in the streets, bars, and at crime scenes. He was nicknamed WeeGee due to his supposed six sense for crime. WeeGee claimed that he snapped 5,000 murders over his career.

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Crime Scene Photograph taken by WeeGee in New York 

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Crime Scene Photograph taken by WeeGee in New York 

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WeeGee was a freelance photographer. He didn't work for a single company. He worked for himself. Whenever he capture a crime scene, WeeGee would offer the pictures for sale to newspapers such as the Herald-Tribune, Daily News, Post, etc.

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WeeGee's photojournalism brought another dimension to photography. Now, people wanted to see the bad and the ugly. A murder was news, but then it was only news if it there was a photograph. His photographs' ability to navigate between these two realms comes from the strong emotional connection forged between the viewer and the characters in his photographs, as well as from Weegee's skill at choosing the most telling and significant moments of the events he photographed.

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On November 23, 1936, a new newspaper appeared. It was a glossy, large-format news magazine that used photographs to tell its stories. It was the biggest mass market hit in history of publishing.

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Henry Luce was the one who created Life Magazine. Life Magazine sold out so quickly because it spoke in a language that anybody could understand which was pictures. No reading. Just pictures of the world.

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To introduce Life Magazine to the world, Henry Luce wrote an essay that described the powers of photography. "To see life. To see the world. To watch the faces of the poor, and the gestures of the proud. To see the strange things. Machines, armies, multitudes, and shadows in the jungle. To see, and to take pleasure in seeing. To see and be instructed. To see and be amazed".

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Life Magazine showed people what was happening in America. The politics, the fashion, the movies, the sports, etc. Through these photo essays, people were able to understand what was going on in the country.

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Through fashion photography, the clothes were the product, but the model sold it. People wanted to be exactly like the model so they bough the clothes that the model was wearing. Fashion photography really brought fashion up to another level.

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Richard Avedon was known for breaking the photography boundaries in the fashion world. Avedon ranged in work form Vogue to the New Yorker. Unlike other photographers, Avedon was able to capture the rare emotion and a unique essecne of his subjects.

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When Richared Avedon took a picture of a dress, all of a sudden everybody wanted to buy it. However, when they went to the store, the dress looked nothing like what was in the picture.

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Fashion Photography was a way for fashion designers to get their creations known all over the world. It influenced people want to wear, and what the trends were at the time. Still to this day, fashion photography greatly influences what we wear.

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In 1937, the Hindenburg was set to land, bringing a new age into airship travel. However, it went horribly wrong and exploded. Out of the 97 people aboard, 62 survived.

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Murray Becker and the Speed Graphic Camera

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Murray Becker and the Speed Graphic Camera

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Murray Becker, who captured all of the photos, was using a Speed Graphic Camera. A Speed Graphic is a large camera that is held with two hands. To operate it you need to put a holder in a camera, cock the shutter, and take the picture. There are around 10 other steps to take another picture. Becker did this whole process three times within 47 seconds.

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Since the photograph was seen all over the world, from then on, it wasn't really news if there wasn't a picture to prove it. Photography at this point really took over America because people only believed photographic evidence.

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During WWII, the military weren't the only ones rushing to the front lines. Photographers for LIFE magazine, the FSA, etc. were rushed to the front lines as well. To most, WWII was a world-wide tragedy, however to photographers, WWII was a dream come true.

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The Big Five were Five different photographs of WWII. Number one was Demonizing the Enemy. To get more support for the war, America put out propaganda demonizing Japan since they had just bombed Pearl Harbor.
Number two was the pin up. One of the most famous photographs of WWII was a photo of a woman's back. Pin-ups were seen everywhere amongst soldiers.
Number three was D-Day. Everybody knew that D-Day would be the biggest event in the world, however not many people could see it. Robert Capa was able to capture the events of D-Day.
Number four was Iwo Jima. One of the most iconic photos of all time was taken by Joe Rosenthal while the flag was raising on Iwo Jima on top of Mt. Suribachi.
Number five was evidence. The evidence was of the holocaust in Auschwitz and all of the other places. It showed all of the horrific things to take place in Germany.

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WWII gave everyone a glimpse into what WWII looked like. It gave people motivation to join or support the war cause. It reminds Americans the ultimate goal of the war. It helped boost patriotism within America during this time.

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After seeing what Lewis Hine did with, child labor, and what the FSA did with farmers, Roy Stryker believed photographs could also be used to fight racial discrimination.

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Gordon Parks’s earliest work as a professional photographer was shooting fashion for a department store in St. Paul, Minnesota.  It was this professional experience that made it possible for him to photograph for local newspapers, prompting Parks to explore and document Chicago’s impoverished South Side. Roy Stryker hired Gordon Parks to take photographs of society to show the people what racial discrimination looks like in America.

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Gordon Parks became one of the most influential figures in the 20th century. His photojournalism from 1940-1970 revealed the "true" America. He focused on issues such as civil rights, poverty, race relations, and urban life. He helped spark the civil rights movement through his photographs.

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Family of Man, organized by Edward Steichen, was a fusion of photographs and caption to support the concept that mankind is one. It included 500 photographs from 68 countries around the world. Family of Man toured the world, bringing many people into museums for the first time in their lives. Family of Man was so significant because it wasn't too long after WWII. Family of Man taught everybody to make peace, not violence.

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Edward Steichen (1879-1973) is one of the most influential photographers in history. Steichen was credited with transforming photography into an art form. As the director of the Photography Department at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Steichen created the most famous photographic exhibition of all time, the Family of Man.

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Family of Man really brought the world together. It taught everyone that all people were alike under the skin. Their differences express the beauty of what it is to be human. it told us that the human heart was beautiful and the human heart was shared by everyone who is human.

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Street Photography, also known as Candid Photography became really popular in the mid 1950s. Street Photography captures public life on a daily basis. People enjoy Street Photography because it is "real". It just shows reality.

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Robert Frank was one of the most influential photographer during this time. He published a book called "The Americans" that included 83 photographs. He was so popular because of his ironic rendering of American life.

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Robert Franks, "The American" was so influential because it challenged the documentary tradition, the aesthetic of photography, the rules of photography, and focused on a collection of images rather than a single image.

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During this period, Straight Photography was the preferred aesthetic. Street Photography brought in a new style of photography that focused on a whole collection of images rather than one single image like straight photography did. Street Photography brought a whole different dimension to photography.

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The goal of the Black Press was to rebuild black communities and spark black political movements. The Black Press had a big influence on the African American community. They gave the African American community a voice. In a world where they were suppressed, the Black Press allowed African Americans to voice their opinions.

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In August, 1955, a fourteen-year-old boy, visiting Mississippi from Chicago, was accused of whistling at a white woman. He was bludgeoned to death and his body was thrown into a nearby river. In a South where violent racism was commonplace, Emmett Till’s murder may have gone un-noticed, except for this photograph. Published only in the black press, it showed his young face beaten beyond recognition.

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When the picture of a dead Emmitt Till circled around the Black Press, it frightened and angered the African American community. This would be a significant driving force as to why the Civil Rights Movement started in the late 50s. This generation would go on to be called the Emmitt Till Generation.

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Social Reform Photography became Civil Rights Photography (1963)

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Social Reform Photography became Civil Rights Photography (1963)

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The Civil Rights Movement started in 1954 and went to 1968. During this time, most pictures that were taken during this time showed the inequality in America showing the Civil Rights Movement or encouraging more to become a part of the Civil Rights Movement. This movement was covered by everyone in the media. If you were a photographer you were probably covering the Civil Rights Movement.

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Danny Lyon (1942-Present), a self-taught photographer was very influential during the Civil Rights Movement with his pictures. All of Lyon's publications work in the style of photographic New Journalism, meaning that the photographers is immersed with the documented subject.

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Demonstrators at an "all-white" swimming pool in Cairo, IL. Danny Lyon (1962)

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The Civil Rights movement was a build-up of the 400 years of American history prior. Slavery, racism, white supremacy, etc. A change in society was long awaited. Some events that helped spark the Civil Rights Movement was Rosa Park's refusal to move to the back of the bus, speeches from Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X, etc.

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SNCC leader John Lewis speaking in Greenwood, 1963. Danny Lyon

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Many many people all across the nation joined together to fight for equal rights. One group in particular was the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). The SNCC was formed by a group of students that had come together to integrate public facilities, busses, etc.
There were a lot of protests over the course of the Civil Rights Movement.

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Freedom Day in Hattiesburg, January, 1964. Danny Lyon

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Impact of Civil Rights Movement Photography

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Impact of Civil Rights Movement Photography

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The Civil Rights Movement gave African Americans the same rights as white people. The Civil Rights Movement also helped spark other movements such as the movement for women's rights and LGBTQ rights. Civil Rights Photography helped expose the cruelty of segregation and discrimination to the world.

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Big 4 Photographs of the Vietnam War (1963)

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Big 4 Photographs of the Vietnam War (1963)

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Pictures had a much greater impact on Americans than television did during the Vietnam War. There was no censorship during the War and photographers had greater access than any other war fought. Readers could get a firsthand look into the war that people watching television couldn't.

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This picture of a burning monk was important at this time because nobody would've thought that a peaceful monk would ever burn themself. This picture really showed everyone how bad the war was at the time. The New York Times didn't print the picture because of how offensive it was.

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General Nguyen Ngoc Loarv by Eddie Adams (1968)

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General Nguyen Ngoc Loarv by Eddie Adams (1968)

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This picture stunned everybody that saw it because nobody had ever seen this moment of death. Eddie Adams perfectly caught the moment the bullet hit the suspect. This picture became symbolic of everything that had happened in the long war.

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This photo hit all viewers hard emotionally. The girl was running towards you. It made you feel like you were there on that road, completely helpless.

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Marry Ann Vecchio by John Paul Filo (1970)

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Marry Ann Vecchio by John Paul Filo (1970)

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On May 4, 1970, students at Kent State were practicing their right to protest. Four were murdered by the Nation Guard. This photograph shows Mary Ann Vecchio leaning over the body in shock. This picture captures the state of America at the time. The people and the government were very far apart.

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Stewart Brand wanted to see a photograph of the Earth. If there was a photograph of Earth, people would change their minds about the infiniteness of Earth. We are just a small part of the universe. A picture of Earth would become the cover of Whole Earth Catalog.

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Stewart Band (1938-present), was best known as an editor of the influential Whole Earth Catalog. Stewart Brand helped shape the environmental consciousness during the 1960s and 70s. Brand's goals of the Whole Earth Catalog were to make a variety of tools accessible to newly dispersed counterculture communities.

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The Whole Earth Catalog helped popularize the appropriate technology movement, which advocated for small-scale, decentralized, and environmentally benign options. Apollo 8: Earthrise, was taken in the spring of 1969. Next year during the spring of 1970, we had the first ever Earth day. This was the beginning of the ecology movement to help preserve the planet since we were destroying it.

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This photo was taken by Bill Anders, on the moon on 1968. and was what created earth  day. People questioned why we never had  a photo of the earth and when Anders took this photo, it was so beautiful that people wanted to celebrate by creating Earth Day.

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In June 1969, LIFE Magazine published a feature very moving and controversial. The cover had a young man and the title was "The Faces of the American Dead in Vietnam: One Weeks Toll." Inside, there were 242 pictures of young men that were killed in the span of seven days.

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Why did LIFE Magazine Choose to Publish This?

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Why did LIFE Magazine Choose to Publish This?

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LIFE Magazine decided to publish this to honor not just the 242 soldiers that died in the seven day span, but to honor all soldiers that had died and all those fighting in war. It also showed us how many American lives were lost each week due to this war.

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Impact of LIFE Magazine's One Weeks Dead

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Impact of LIFE Magazine's One Weeks Dead

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One Week's Dead was very controversial amongst the public. Some said it was beautiful, for some it hit home hard, and for some it was outrageous. Those who thought that it was outrageous felt like this was supporting the antiwar demonstrators.