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George Eastman founder of Kodak invented The Brownie in 1900. The Brownie was the first portable camera that allowed the public to access photographs for less money.

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The Brownie Camera was a cheap camera that was light weight. It allowed for people to connect who were separated by distance. It was sold for $1 in most public stores.

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Example of a photo taken with a Brownie Camera

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Picture Postcards came around in 1908. It helped people communicate with their families and friends from long distance. Kodak used a stronger form of paper base for sending with an area on the back for writing.

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Gilbert Grosvenor - Magazine Photography - 1905

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Gilbert Grosvenor - Magazine Photography - 1905

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Gilbert Grosvenor worked with National Geographic in Magazine Photography. He became editor in 1903 and then president of National Geographic in 1920

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This is the cover of National Geographic from that time. Grosvenor put pictures of Tibet when he printed the first issue with pictures.

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This is a photo from Tibet that was in the issue of National Geographic. Grosvenor wanted Americans to be able to see the world when they never could before.

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Edward Curtis - Documentary Photography - Early 1900's

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Edward Curtis - Documentary Photography - Early 1900's

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Edward Curtis originally took portraits for people in his town. Curtis became very moved by the customs and traditions of these people and wanted to continue these exhibitions of the native work. Around the early 1900's he started photographing the Native Americans in their habitats. He started photography Native Americans because he wanted to capture their culture before it disappeared. Through these photos he was able to bring a view on Native Americans that no one in the world would have been able to see. It allowed people to see another culture different than theirs.

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Native American Photo taken by Edward Curtis

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Native American Photo taken by Edward Curtis

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This is one of the most famous Edward Curtis photographs. This is a photograph of a Native American man.

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This is another one of Curtis' well known Native American photographs.

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Steiglitz felt that photography had lost its artistic touch. He wanted to prove that photography was just as artistic as painting. He wanted to make photography a handmade process and wanted to break away from "commercial trash and artless amateur photography". Around 1902, he started the Pictorialist movement. He wanted to make photography art by making it a handmade process.

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This photo seems to capture Steiglitz goal perfectly. It is a photo but embodies the characteristics of a painting.

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Frank Gilbreth - Motion Studies Photography - 1910

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Frank Gilbreth - Motion Studies Photography - 1910

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Frank Gilbreth wanted to maximize someone's efficiency when doing tasks. To do this he attached a light to a worker's finger which would indicate the amount of time a motion would take. Gilbreth's research and photographs led to American workers becoming more efficient in factories and assembly lines.

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Gilbreth attached lights to someone and tracked their motion by using photographs. Gilbreth aimed to cut out the excess motion to make people more efficient when carrying out tasks.

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Social Reform and Lewis Hine - Early 1910's

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Social Reform and Lewis Hine - Early 1910's

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Lewis Hine was a teacher who got hired by the National Child Labor committee to photograph the issue of child labor laws. He took photos from around the early 1910's. He wanted the public to end child labor. His photos eventually led to legislation ending child labor in the U.S.

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Paul Strand - Modernism Photography - 1915

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Paul Strand - Modernism Photography - 1915

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Strand is discussed as the founder Modernism/Straight Photography. In 1915, Strand became most known for his historically significant image called Wall Street.

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The photo that helped make Paul Strand known in 1915.

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Modernism/Straight Photography is a pure photographic style that utilized large formatted cameras to bring new perspectives to ordinary subjects.

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Propaganda Photography was started during WWI in 1917 to photograph and show the front line of the war. It war to be shown to the public and was used to raise moral for the troops or people back home.

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Woodrow Wilson was the 28th president of the United States. Wilson was the president during WWI. Wilson made Propaganda Photography prevalent during WWI between 1914 - 1918.

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Most of time the images were staged and away from the fighting to be able to capture interesting settings or actions.

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Tabloid Journalism is a small sized newspaper filled with multiple news stories and started around 1919. Tabloids allowed a larger spread of local news and drama but could sometimes contain false information.

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The Daily News was one of the first major Tabloid Companies to become successful around 1919.

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Celebrity Photography was used to create stars and promote products in Hollywood in the 1920's.

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George Hurrell was one of the photographers to start implementing Celebrity Photography for promotion purposes in 1920.

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Clarence Sinclair Bull was another one of the photographers to start implementing Celebrity Photography for promotion purposes in 1920 and worked with George Hurrell.

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In 1935 the AP created the wire press which allowed pictures to be taken simultaneously at the same time across the country.

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The wire was created in 1935 out of the Associated Press Headquarters in New York. AP wanted to be able to spread photographs quickly around the U.S.

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The Plane Crash was the first photo sent through The Wire in 1935. This proved that The Wire worked and allowed for photographs to be spread along the U.S. Unfortunately I was not able to find a picture of The Plane Crash.

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The Hindenburg Explosion was captured in 1937 by Murray Becker by using a speed graphic camera. The crash took place in Lakehurst New Jersey. This photo was spread through the Wire.

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Murray Becker was the photographer who is known to have captured the Hindenburg explosion and went on to capture many more historical moments.

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The Speed Graphic Camera was produced in Rochester New York. The name Speed Graphic comes from the ability of the speed that could be achieved with the focal plane shutter.

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Wee Gee was created in the 1940's by Arthur Fellig who was a photographer and photojournalist. He was known for taking photos of gang assassinations.

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The purpose of the Wee Gee was to follow the city’s emergency services to capture the unflinchingly reality of the city in NYC. He wanted to tell the true stories of gangs and killings.

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Wee Gee captured numerous aspects of life as well, not just the negative.

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Life Magazine was officially created in 1936 in New York which included pictures that were captured from around the world!

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Henry Luce was the creator of Life Magazine. He launched and supervised influential magazines that transformed journalism.

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Luce created the photographic essay in Life Magazine. The magazine was encompassed by many photographs and very few words. The only wording would be small captions. This allowed the viewer to see the story rather than just reading about it.

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The Farm Security Administration or FSA showed the truth about the economic downfall that was happening in America specifically during the Great Depression. At the time the photos helped President Roosevelt sell his programs but for older generations have become a critical moment in history.

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Stryker was the person in the FSA to start using photographs to capture life during the depression. This allowed for the public to see how life was in certain areas of the U.S.

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Dorothea Lang was another influential photographer with the FSA. Her most famous photo was "Migrant Mother". Her photos allowed the public to see what was happening in the whole country.

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Social Reform Photography in the 1940's was aimed to end discrimination and segregation in the United States. The photo above is the most famous photo of Gordan Parks.

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Gordon Parks was an American photographer who became prominent in U.S. documentary photojournalism in the 1940's through 1970's. He focused mainly in issues of civil rights, poverty and African-Americans. Parks wanted to document the segregation and discrimination in the U.S. He wanted to more people to see what was really happening in the U.S., especially what was happening in the South.

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Parks believed the photographs could be used to combat racial discrimination and took photos that highlighted these issues for more of the public to see and realize.

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Ansel Adams was an American landscape photographer and environmentalist known his landscape photos of the western U.S.

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Adams became known in 1941 when he traveled around the U.S to capture photos of the nature and geography because he believed it is our history. He believed that the mountains, rivers, lake, etc. of the U.S. are compared to the castles and fortresses of Europe.

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Adams' photographs led to the creation of National Parks by the U.S. government. The Zone System is a photographic technique for determining optimal film exposure and development. This was created and used by Ansel Adams.

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After the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, photographers were sent out to capture photographs from WWII.

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This was a photo from WWII. This photos shows a women looking at the skull of a Japanese soldier. The skull was sent from the islands of the Pacific from her boyfriend who was an American soldier. The bodies of the Japanese soldiers were melted so that the bones could be sent to the U.S. as gifts.

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The Pin Up Girl was known as Betty Grable. Her photo spread through the U.S. soldiers. The photo was taken in the 1940's. It gave the soldiers hope and reminded them what they were fighting for.

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This is one of the photographs taken at the landing of Omaha Beach in Normandy, France. This day is known as D-Day. D-Day was heavily anticipated day when the allied forces would invade France.

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The battle of Iwo Jima gave birth to this iconic photograph. Iwo Jima is an island in the Pacific Ocean. American and Japanese forces fought for control of this island. This photo was towards the end of the battle when the U.S. took control of the island and raised the American Flag. This raised the moral of U.S. citizens and embodied the American Spirit.

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This was a photo taken at a Nazi Concentration Camp. It showed the true horrors of war and showed how bad the Nazis were. These photos were used as evidence against Germany. It was evidence of how bad they were.

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Fashion Photography gave the public inspiration of clothing to be worn or figures to aspire to look like physically. It was a way to promote and sell branded clothing.

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Robert Avedon was an American fashion and portrait photographer. He worked for Harper's Bazaar and Vogue, specializing in capturing movement in still pictures of fashion, theater and dance. His photographs gave inspiration the people of the U.S. on what to wear and buy.

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This is a Fashion Photography picture by Richard Avedon.

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In 1955 the book, "The Family of Man" was released. It showed different cultures from all around the world. From this book there was also a exhibition made of the photos to show the human heart was beautiful and shared by everyone. The purpose was to show the unity among different cultures.

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Edward Steichen was the photographer that created "The Family of Man". Steichen wanted to show the unity between cultures and people from all over the world.

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This is a photograph from The Family of Man exhibition in New York.

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Street Photography became a sensation across the U.S. throughout the 1950's. The purpose of Street Photography was to show American Life. Robert Frank was the most well known Street Photographer of that time.

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Street Photography portrayed the perfect American life in the 1950's. Street Photography could be seen in many magazines during that time such as Life and more.

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Robert Frank who was a famous street photographer. Frank's work shaped American photography. Frank showed true street life in the 1950's.

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The Black Press was a collective of African American journalists and photojournalists who operated to show the unfairness of discrimination and segregation in the U.S.. The Black Press would report on many issues and events in the southern U.S. during this time.

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The Black Press started to gain recognition after the murder of Emmett Till. They wanted to spread the news about what happened to Till and how unjust it was. People started to take notice to segregation and discrimination after this was released.

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The Black Press would work to push the issues of discrimination and segregation to people throughout the U.S. Their main purpose was to show the stories of African Americans to the rest of the world.

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Photography played a pivotal role in the Civil Rights Movement. Through the 1960's photographers would showcase the brutality of the Civil Rights Movement. This photography would occur mostly in the southern U.S.. Photographers wanted to show what was truly happening in the southern U.S. during the Civil Rights Movement.

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Danny Lyons was a photographer that took photos during the Civil Rights Movement. Lyon wanted to show what was truly happening during the Civil Rights Movement.

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Lyon and many other photographers focused on the Birmingham Race Riots. The riots showed the true brutality of police and other white Americans in the south. The photographers wanted to show what was happening.

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The Vietnam War occurred from 1955 to 1975. Photographers had greater access to the Vietnam War than any other war in history. The photographs that were taken allowed for people to see the true realities of war. The Big 4 Photos of the Vietnam War were; Quang Duc, General Nguyen Ngoc Loan, Mary Ann Vecchio, and Phan Thi Kim Phuc.

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Quang Duc was a monk of burnt himself while alive in the middle of Saigon. Duc was protesting the persecution of Buddhists in South Vietnam and by the Diem regime. Malcolm Browne photographed this photo in 1963 and presented to the NY Times. They wouldn't print it but other magazines and newspapers did. It became a very influential photo. President Kennedy saw it and said, “This just won't do, it's time to get rid of the Diem regime".

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This photograph shows General Nguyen Ngoc Loan executing a handcuffed prisoner. This prisoner was Nguyễn Văn Lém. The moment the photo was taken was when the bullet from Loan's gun entered Lém's head. This photograph was taken by Eddie Adams. This led Adams to winning the Pulitizer Prize. This photograph was shown all across the world to show the horrors of the Vietnam War.

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This photograph was taken at the Kent State Shooting on May 4, 1970. There was a protest at the Kent State campus against the Vietnam War. The shootings were a retaliation to the protest. Mary Ann Vecchio was photographed by John Filo. Vecchio, only 14, was standing over the dead body of Jeffrey Miller. This photo by Filo illustrated the true drama of war and how the Vietnam War affected those in the U.S..

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This photograph was taken by Nick Ut. This photo was taken on June 8, 1972. Phan Thi Kim Phuc is the girl in the center of the photo. She was struck by napalm as she was running from her village in Vietnam. This showed the world the horrors of war and how those horrors can affect innocent children. Ut won a Pulitzer Prize from this photo.

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Life Magazine had decided to run an issue with the faces of those who died in one week during the Vietnam War. Their reasoning was that names did not bring the true importance of the lives lost. Many suggest that this led to the end of the U.S.'s involvement in the Vietnam War.

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In January 1966, Stewart Brand looked out to the San Francisco skyline and noticed that the Earth was curved. He then began to wonder why we haven't seen a photo of the Earth from space yet.

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This was the first photo taken of the Earth from space. It was titled "Earthrise". It was taken on the Apollo 8 mission by William Anders.

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This is the Apollo 8 crew. William Anders (middle) was the one who shot the photograph. Apollo 8 was the first manned mission to the moon. They were sent to the Moon to research it and take pictures of the Moon. The Earth was incidentally seen in the corner of one of the photographs.

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Crime scene photography first began in the late twentieth century. This occurred because technology was modernizing rapidly. Police and prosecutors realized that photographs of crime scenes could be used as evidence in criminal cases.

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Crime scene photographs can cause the jurors of a case to be moved emotionally. This can lead them to either sway guilty or not guilty. Photographic evidence also preserved the crime scene so that it could be seen by the jury in a trial.

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Photographers for the police are called Forensic Photographers. The photographs they take are usually used by prosecutors in court.

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The Photo Op became a term when Ronald Reagan was president from 1981 to 1989. Reagan was famous for being very photogenic while in office. The Photo Op is a term for the best photographic situations for someones (especially the president or someone else of high power). Reagan was very comfortable to being photographed as he was an actor before he became a politician.

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The purpose of the Photo Op was to spread propaganda about the president of the U.S.. It allowed for people to view the president in a normal way when he was working or relaxing.

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The Photo Op can also make someone look bad as well. This was especially the case with President Richard Nixon. Nixon was not a very photogenic person. This led to a propaganda used by his presidential running mates. Another example of this was seen with Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky. Clinton and Lewinsky were photographed hugging many times (like the photo above). Dirck Halstead took this photo with his film camera. Some photographers, like Halstead, still use film cameras so they do not have to worry about losing storage and deleting photos. Since Halstead still used a film camera, he was the only one to capture this photo.

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The Gulf War was started in 1991. The U.S. and other allied forces invaded Iraq in response to Iraq's invasion and annexation of Kuwait. This war arose from the oil prices and control of oil. This war was heavily censored by the U.S. government as they did not want to repeat what happened in Vietnam.

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David Turnley is a photographer who became well known during The Gulf War. He disobeyed the government and went with a unit he was not assigned to in the Gulf War. Turnley wanted to spread the real truth of the war and not the censored version that the government wanted.

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This photograph was taken by Turnley towards the end of the war. Turnley wanted to show what these men had gone through in war. The photograph shows two wounded American soldiers next to a dead soldier in a body bag being extracted in a Blackhawk helicopter. Turnley won a Pulitzer Prize for this photo.

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In the 1990's the digital age of photography had started up. There were new digital cameras as well as many editing softwares to edit images.

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Photoshop was used to alter OJ Simpson's mugshot. The image on the right was the original image that was taken, while the image on the left was altered to make Simpson seen as more evil and sinister. This was dangerous as editing an image can depict something that it did not originally do

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Photoshop and other editing programs have been used to help find missing children. These programs allowed for people to make the children look older to the age that they would presently be. There has been success in finding children with this technique. An example of this can be seen above.

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This rapid increase of pictures has made us more comfortable looking at photographs. Even though we look at a countless number of photographs a year, we are still able to connect with some the most. The Pictorialist Movement of photography has formed and shaped into fine art, pop art, and many other photographic art genres.

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Andy Warhol was an American artist who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. Warhol led the movement of photography as are in the late twentieth century. Warhol would make photographs abstract and change their details.