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George Eastman, inventor of Kodak, created the Brownie camera in 1900 which was the first portable camera. It gave people access to cheaper photography.

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The Brownie was a camera made by Kodak in 1900. It gave the public access to photograph everyday life at an affordable price. They sold for $1 in the US, and was mass produced in stores and sold to the public.

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The Brownie liberated possible photographers from the dark room and captured a hoax of white light for the public. It also connected people together who were separated by distance.

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Brownie photos developed in shades of brown, not black and white. They also developed on a square piece of film but the actual image was a circle.

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37 Fascinating Photographs Taken With Kodak’s First Commercial Camera from the 1890s

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Kodak started offering postcards in 1908 with personalized images on them a way to bring in more business. This gave people a cheaper way to send images with notes and messages attached to family and friends of many distances.

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Kodak provided printing on card stock base for sending with area on the back to write a message. This fulfilled the function of newspaper photographs to family and friends. These postcards covered family, community, and society events to people not in the surrounding community. This paved the way for photo montage.

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Gilbert Grosvenor was a photographer for National Geographic. He is known as the father of photojournalism to some and built National Geographic Magazine into what it is today. Born in 1875, he grew up to be the first full-time editor of the magazine.

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Magazine photography allowed people to see cultures and photographic evidence of life from other places around the world. The national geographic was losing money and they needed a way to gain more and frequent buyers. They used a type of printing of images called Halftone Printing, which is basically a pattern of dots that relay an image on the magazine pages. In 1905, this was a huge advancement for magazine and newspaper sellers because it encouraged everyone to want a copy specifically for the images.

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This is what halftone printing was and this is how the pictures appeared in the magazine pages. It gave the eye a general view of what it was suppose to be seeing.

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Edward published a 20-volume set of photographs documenting the lives of Natives. In 1907, these photos were revolutionary because they depicted the true lives of indigenous people, not the fantasy world that many people pushed.

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These photographs gave the reality of Natives. Everyone created a reality of some fantasy of what native lives were like and these photos exposed the sad truth. This was a very important moment for native and photographic history.

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These photos gave natives an image of a world that they wanted intact. This style of photography is still used in today's time, especially for documentaries.

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Alfred was born in 1864 in New Jersey. He grew up to be a photographer and in fact THE photographer that promoted photography and got it deemed as art form.

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This was a movement in 1902 , pushed by Alfred Stieglitz, in the US to make a point that photography was an art form. Photographers tried methods, such as smearing Vaseline on their lenses or in the darkroom afterwards by scratching the negative or painting chemicals on their prints to simulate brush strokes to make photography a hands-on art. This hands-on process brought photography back to the older traditions of handmade art, and sort of satisfied that question at least for the moment that photography was made by a machine.

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Frank was born in 1868, who was actually an engineer who orchestrated the ability to use pictures to make movement. They were often called "moving pictures." He took pictures of every single movement workers made, then put them together to form movement with images.

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Frank's original point was to study the fastest workers to teach maximum efficiency to everyone, but his images went viral and made an impact in a different way for the photography world. How did he do it? He snapped pictures of worker performing effective work skills. This helped him study motion and fatigue studies

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Lewis was, not only a photographer, but also a sociologist. This part of him really fueled his passion for the type of photography he participated in. In 1906, there was a lot of children working in terrible conditions and he strongly opposed. His images captured the sadness and the despair these kids were feeling to get justice for them in them in work force.

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Lewis used his art to bring social ills to public attention. He took these photographs in an attempt to educate Americans about the need for legislation. He did this by photographing children working in an attempt to exposed child labor and get it

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Images like this just show how hard work was on these children and how terrible it was. These images helped persuade legislation to give these children a chance at an actual childhood.

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In the 1920s, photographers started to express the social, political, and aesthetic of imagery and photography. They started to experiment with light, developing and perspective, and abstraction. These images were crazy popular for advertisement as well.

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The whole kick was that photographers captured ordinary objects in photographs for advertisement. Luc Santa was one of the main photographers for this and he wanted to become the new person that stepped into the modern word, dragging photography with him. These photos appeared in American publication and they started an uprising of modern art and helped everyone take a step forward into a more modern way of life.

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Wilson established the world/s first propaganda agency in 1917 in the US.

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Propaganda would unleash a massive media campaign, that was  tightly controlled and would become an important historical event. Photographers were kept away from the front lines, so the photos were posed combat or far away from action since no newspaper or magazine was ever permitted to show a photo of a dead American soldier. The pictures showed the truth, that modern warfare was anything but glorious.

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A tabloid was a magazine or news source that had photographs that were attractive to the eye and lengthy paragraphs to pull in readers.

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Tabloids, specifically the Daily News, wanted to get people to buy the newspaper and be intrigued to it. They went about this by using illustrations that caught attention and looked the most interesting. This was obviously effective, as they are still one of the biggest tabloids in American to this day. The purpose was to intrigue others to know what was happening with others by using illustrations.

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This type pf photography was used to photographed and documented celebrities in their private lives. This art form was used to not only show case popular stars, but it also made people into them.

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In the US, people wanted to connect to celebrities and know more about their lives. This led to photographers taking pictures of celebrity lives outside of the cameras. This type of photography was started in 1900 and most people know of this because of the images of Marilyn Monroe. Many companies started to use celebrities on their advertisement.

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The Wire Associated Press is a 24-hour news agency that made daily news with photos from the current times. They modernized needed an image to prove that an invent happened because they wired photos from events that occurred and had them printed on the newspapers that same day. The Associated Press created the wire press in 1935, allowing pictures to be taken concurrently across the country. They then had those images printed on the news paper the day they were taken and the day the event happened. This was significant because news stories came and gone quickly because there was always a new story to be told and pictures were never printed quick enough to keep up. The wired press allowed for images of current events to be on the same paper as the story and drew people into buying the paper because there were visuals of it happening.

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The Wired Associated Press was created in it's New York headquarters. It was used to capture historical events such as Amelia Earhart landing in California.

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It changed everyone's understanding about what everything looked like and what news really was as well showed proof and imagery of events that occurred. It started this trend in society where everyone believed that “seeing is believing” so they mainly believed photographs. People soon after started to believe that if there wasn't a photograph of it, then it didn't happen or they wouldn't believe it.

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The infamous photo of The Hindenburg Explosion was captured by Murray Becker in 1937. The explosion occurred in Lakehurst, New Jersey and burned for a total of 32 seconds because it was filled with helium. He used a speed graphic camera which allowed him to only get three photographs of the explosion.

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Murray Becker was born in 1909 and grew up to be a famous photographer. His photos of the Hindenburg Explosion made him recognizable because the got three amazing shots of the explosion. He was the only photographer that decided to watch the airship land and because of this, he was the only one to have captured images of it. He went on to capture more images of other historical events before dying in 1986.

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The Speed Graphic camera, used to capture the Hindenburg Explosion, was produced in Rochester, New York by W. F. Folmer. The name for the camera came for it's ability to achieve quick plane shutter. The Speed Graphic camera took awhile to reload so being able to take multiple pictures of a tragic event occurring right in front of you was impressive. It's also the reason Becker only got three images of the explosion, because in that 32 seconds, he spent time reloading his camera.

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WeeGee was a photographer that took images of crimes scenes, dead bodies, and other tragic events that he reported on and wanted to bring to public attention. In 1935, he started taking pictures of crime scenes and allowing public access to see them.

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He photographed the hard things in life because people couldn't deal with it or talk about so seeing it made it easier. People wanted to see those images. It was scary so it intrigued most. Crime scenes and dead bodies that resulted from gang violence are what he mainly photographed and it spread his work and message: the crime and death was a real problem. He was based in New York.

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His photographs made people understand how important photography is because it established a need for it within the social justice environment. Photos of crimes and death helped the public understand what was happening around them as well as how bad crime was and how it resulted in casualties. People were not only hearing about all the crime, death, and news in general, but they were also seeing it. The photos open people's eyes, in a way.

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Life Magazine, created in 1936 in New York, was a magazine that had pictures all over it's pages and and had pictured that were taken from around the world. It grew to be one of the biggest magazines and was ahead of it's time.

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Henry Luce, creator of Life Magazine, launched and supervised an influential magazine that changed journalism forever. It transformed what magazines featured in their pages. Life magazine became one of the most popular and bought magazines and is still up and running.

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The photographic essay was just photos arranged on a page in a certain way that told the story with a beginning, middle, and end. They told a whole story in detail with just pictures. It gave the audience descriptions that can’t be given with words because it’s visual proof of descriptions and displayed emotions.

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Life Magazine filled its pages with images which wasn't common with news sources and magazines in this time period.  This made them stick out. The photographic essays spoke with pictures which was something everyone could understand. Luce found the magic of images very interesting and he wanted to take part in its history and share picture magic with the world

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The FSA showed the truth about the downfall of the economy in America during the Great Depression. At the time, the photos assisted President Roosevelt sell his programs and later generations learn about a critical historical moment.

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Roy Stryker is one of two photographers known as the face of FSA. He launched the documentary photography movement of the association.

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The second face of the FSA was Dorothea Lange. She was an influential photographer that was a huge part of the FSA administration.

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Social Reform photography in the 1940s was usually depictions of racial discrimination. It consisted of photos of protests and rallies to oppose it, or it was images of the violence and the police arrested people expressing their support.

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Gordon wasn't only and American photographer, but also a musician, writer and film director, who became very popular in U.S. documentary photojournalism. He was well known throughout the 1940s up into the 1970s and still to this day. His focus was civil rigts issues, the black community, and poverty.

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He believed his photos of major issues could be used to fight racial discrimination and used his photos to highlight those issues for more of the public to see what was really happening and how people were really living.

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Ansel Adams was a photographer that photographed landscapes. He was an environmentalist which is why he photographed the scenery he did. He was known for his monochromatic pictures in balck-and-white.

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He became known in 1941 when he traveled across America and photographed nature's scenery. He photographed geographic places because he believed it was our history ad he wanted imagery of it.

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December 7, 1941 FSA photographers were dis-batched to capture photos that showed what the front lines of the war looked like and to show other war activities that went on during the war and back at home.

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Street photography was often featured in LIFE magazines, movies, and TV shows.

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Street photography became popular in the 50s and created this image or vision of what the "perfect American life" looked like.

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Robert Frank was a famous street photographer. His most known work was the 1958 book named The Americans.

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Fashion Photography gave the public inspiration of clothing to be worn or even body types to look like physically. It was a way to promote and sell clothing brands and majority became popular in the 1950s.

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Richard Avedon was a photographer that specialized in fashion ad portrait photography. He worked for Harper's Bazaar and Vogue. He captured movement in his still pictures of fashion, dance, and theater.

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In 1955, photographers from all over the world captured images to compile into a book for everyone to see and learn from. There was also an exhibition made of the photos to show how beautiful the human heart was and also shared by everyone. The purpose was to show the unity among all the different cultures.

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Edward was a photographer, painter, and curator, know as one of the most prolific and influential photographers in history. He was credited with changing photography into an art form.