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The snapshot was a concept first introduced early on by Kodak. Kodak encouraged families to use their camera to shoot photos with the click of a button and then let the camera do the rest of the work. It was very popular and changed the way photos were perceived and who had access to them.

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George Eastman was the introduced the Kodak camera in 1888 and coined the slogan, "you press the button, we do the rest"

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The first affordable and accessible camera introduced by Kodak

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Brownie Continues to Grow in Popularity 

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Brownie Continues to Grow in Popularity 

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The Brownie was afforded by thousands of families and made it a popular thing to purchase because of its cheap price. The Brownie paved the way for photography and other advancements because it connected people together who may have been separated by distance.

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Pictorialists intervened in the photographic process by smearing baseline on their lenses or in the darkroom afterwards by scratching the negative or painting chemicals on their prints to simulate brush stroked.

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Alfred Stieglitz started the Photo-Secessionist movement. He felt that people should recognize photography as another branch of art.

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Thanks to Alfred Stieglitz's method photography began to be seen as a form of art. The photographs looked like art, like beautiful paintings. This hands-on process Brough photography back to the older traditions of handmade art, and wronged the statement that photography was made by a machine.

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In 1905 Gilbert Grosvenor was the editor of a dry scientific journal with about 3000 subscribers. The magazine was losing money as not enough people were interest, this magazine was the National Geographic.

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The National Geographic magazine was slowly declining, not enough people were interested. There was a printer deadline and Grosvenor had no idea what to do. Until he saw a stack go photographs of his desk. He then decided to publish these photographs which were pictures of Lhasa in Tibet.

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Once Grosvenor decided to publish these photographs magazines changed forever. He continued to fill magazines with more and more photographs. This was a huge success for the magazine as people seemed to really enjoy seeing places that were different from the place the know as well as people who were not like them.

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Social Reform Photography started when photographers such as Jacob Riis used the medium of photography to bring evidence of their claims to these viewers. The style of photography is now known as "social reform" because photographers used the medium to effect social change.

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Jacob Riis was a significant figure in Social Reform Photography. Riis took the step to use photographs to advocate for social change. Soon after is became possible to paint photographs in books Riis included pictures in his influential work on housing reform.

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Social Reform Photography was very big and popular in the United States. Photographs like this reached a huge audience and people who had never seen these kinds of images before were both moved and outraged. Riis continued to report about the quality of life in the slums while also attempting to alleviate the bad living conditions of poor people by exposing their living conditions to the middle and upper classes.

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As of 1908 the Kodak company was now able to print any photograph on postcard paper. The company was able to showcase different aspects of a place you wanted to capture of paper. With the help of a photo montage they were able to create an exaggerated view of what ever place you wanted.

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Once again Eastman Kodak was the one to offer this idea of a postcard. Kodak provided printing on a stronger paper base in order to send and also included an area on the back to write a message.

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The purpose of the picture postcard was to send a photograph to friends and family. You could use the postcard to announce important dates. Eventually these postcards fulfilled the function of newspaper photographs as they covered family events, mass events, situation within society, etc.

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Frank Gilbreth developed a method of time and motion study that systematically investigated and analyzed the mechanics and timing of specific tasks, which resulted in the publication of Motion Study in 1911.

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Gilbreth would use photographs to break a worker's every action into the smallest unity, revealing all unnecessary movements. He would do this by attaching flashing lights to a worker's fingers to indicate the length of time a motion would take.

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Motion Studied Photography would impact the lives of everyone, for examine Frank Gilbreth observed surgeons and realized they took more time looking for they instruments than they did in performing the operation. Gilbreth suggested calling out for the instruments and reaching you hand out while someone hands it to you.

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A photographer named Paul Strand had come to realize that the camera had a unique ability to capture shapes and forms simply, directly, and in sharp focus. The modernist movement he pioneered was called simply, "straight photography".

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Paul Strand had been working in the shadows of other photographer, when in 1915 he finally brought a protfolio of his own work. He had created a new and great modern art. Instead of distorting the image or manipulation the print afterwards, Strand would emphasize the selection and framing of the picture. The art would depend on the eye of the photographer.

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Strand had a lot of enthusiasm for this new method. His enthusiasm for sharp focused realism was shared by a new generation of photographers, the camera would now become and instrument pf a new kind of vision.

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The term "tabloid journalism" was referring to a small newspaper that contained condensed stories that were easily accessible. One of the most popular tabloid newspaper was The Daily News.

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The Daily News is the oldest tabloid newspaper. The Daily News was a winged camera that went everywhere and Brough back the news to you. It had big photographs and a lot of other photographs.

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Tabloid Journalism would catch people's attention and have a stronger connection between the audience just because of their use of photographs.

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Throughout certain social and political events, photographs were used as a means of controlling both subjects and audiences. People have a natural tendency to believe whatever is evident on an image as well as easily persuaded by and image, which makes photography the perfect foundation for propaganda.

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While most photographers were involved in propaganda photography, President Wilson established the propaganda agency. The Propaganda Agency would unleash a massive media campaign to rally the country to certain causes.

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How and why was Propaganda Photography possible? 

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How and why was Propaganda Photography possible? 

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Propaganda Photography was possible because photographers were kept away from the front lines. And most images of combat were either posed, or taken very far from action, government censorship was total. These pictures showed the truth, that modern warfare was anything but glorious.

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Celebrity Photography was pictures of celebrities, people wanted to know more about them and their private lives. They wanted to know what they did off camera.

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Clarence Sinclair Bull and George Hurrell 1920

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Clarence Sinclair Bull and George Hurrell 1920

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Both Clarence Sinclair Bull and George Hurrell create photographs of stars and invented an actors image, they defined glamour. In Hollywood they invented a new school of publicity photographs that was instantly recognizable.

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Hollywood started selling a belief that ordinary people can somehow enter into that world, and inhabit that world through their relationship with their favorite stars.

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Edward Sheriff Curtis was an American photographer. He is an important figure in photography because of his impact of Documentary Photography.

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Edward Curtis published a 20- volume set of photographs documenting the lives of Native Americans. While then his photographs were monumental and appealing to the United States these photographs are accused of romanticizing the life of Native Americans by depicting an idealized version of their lives during a time when their culture was being suppressed.

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Documentary Photography Impact 20th Century

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Documentary Photography Impact 20th Century

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People believed these photographs connected people with each other however today some would say these photographs were a fantasy of what the Native people lived. Documentary Photography would become extremely popular as people found it facisnating to see how people outside of the United States lived.

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Each day thousands of photographs come in from around the world to the Associated Press, from here they're selected and distributed to news organizations around the world. If news happens anywhere on Earth, they'd soon see a picture of it.

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On January 1, 1935, groups of technicians huddled around black machines across the country. The first transmission, a dramatic photo of a plane crash. This photograph was of big importance to Wire Journalism.

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Wire journalism connect the world together, allow people to experience and inform themselves about different things going on around the world. It was a different way for journalist to get things out to the public successfully.

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Arthur Fellig, down by Weegee, was a photographer and photojournalist, down for his stark black and white tree photography in New York.

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Weegee worked in Manhattan's Lower East Side during the 1930s and developed his signature style by following the city's emergency services and documenting their activity. Much of his work depicted unflinchingly realistic scenes of urban life, crime, injury and death.

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Wedge's photojournalism focused on the picture's narrative content and visual punch, making his human interest stories so much more impactful. He showed a different narrative to people on the outside. Weegee did not care a lot about quality of a photograph, he was more concerned with capturing a moment of time on film.

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On November 23, 1936 a new magazine appeared. This magazine gave Americans something they had never seen before, a large format news magazine which used photographs to tells its stories. It was the biggest mass marker to hit in the history of publishing. It was so big because it spoke in a language that everybody could understand, pictures.

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Henry Luce was the publisher of Life Magazine. He had always had a fascination with what he called "picture magic". To introduce this new magazine to the world he wrote an essay which described the many powers of photograph. Now Life Magazine perfected the format of the photo essay. The photographs selected and arranged on the page would tell the story with a beginning a middle and an end.

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The reason Life Magazine was so impactful was because it hooked people and that not matter where they lived or who they were, they could all share in this experience which is defined by photographs. Life told people about a world that many people didn't have.

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The Hindenburg was a commercial air service showcasing their ability to travel long distance. However in the end it was a disaster and caused 35 deaths among the 97 passengers.

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Lloyd Becker had last minute decided to put up his camera as the Hindenburg was coming in. Just as he held up the camera, it exploded and he hit the trigger, getting the first puff of explosion on the Hindenburg. Murray Becker was using a Speed Graphic which is a large camera that's held with two hands and follow a process ignorer to take a photographs. Murray got an instant shot of when the Hindenburg burned creating remarkable piece of camera work.

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The Speed Graphic Murray decided to use that day was developed in 1912. This camera was specifically meant for commercial photography, denoted as a press style camera. It was a dominant portable professional camera making Murray's image so much more captivating.

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FSA or the Farm Security Administration was a new deal agency created in 1937 to combat rural poverty during the Great Depression in the United States. Multiple photographers were assigned the job to investigate the living conditions of farmers all over America.

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Dorothea Lange is an American documentary photographer whose portraits of displaced farmers during the Great Depression greatly influenced later documentary. Her most famous work is known as "Migrant Mother" this photograph as others she took of migrant farm workers and the rural poor are some of the most iconic images of the Great Depression.

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The Great Depression began after the stock market crash of October 1929 which sent Wall Street into a panic and wiped out millions of investors. Over the next several years consumer spending and investment dropped causing steep declines in industrial output and employment as failing companies laid off workers.

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As the FSA photographers traveled across the country to take photos of how the money was being used, and eventually this led to the documentation of migrant workers during the Great Depression. The FSA photographs served to both educate the public and demonstrate the need for assistance for farmers, sharecroppers, and migrant workers.

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Roy Stryker Brough a team of photographers who were legends in the history of photography. Stryker believed that photographs were powerful enough to fight racial discrimination.

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Roy Stryker believed photographs could be used to combat racial discrimination. He began by showing Parks how things really worked on the streets of the nation's capital. Stryker told him to go into a restaurant and see what happens, Parks experienced discrimination first hand. He realized from the reactions of people that the camera could be a very powerful instrument against discrimination, poverty, and against racism.

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Gordon Parks became on of the most groundbreaking figures in 20th century photography. His photojournalism during the 1940w reveals important aspects of American Culture, and he became known for focusing on issues of civil rights, poverty, race relations and urban life.

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Ansel Adams is a photographer/environmentalist who used his work to promote conservation of wilderness areas. His iconic black and white images helped to establish photography among the fine arts.

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Ansel Adams began the Yosemite Photographs in 1958 to offer beautiful works of art as an affordable alternative to original photographs. These photographs showed people that National Parks were unique and important to protect.

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"Expose for the shadows; develop for the highlights." The zone system of Ansel Adams divides the photo into eleven zones; nine shades of grey, together with pure black and pure white. Adam, who photographed in black in white negative film made sure to expose for the darkest parts of his scenery.

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Today Ansel Adams is undeniably among the great names associated with our National parks and conservation in A America. His work with the National Parks Service greatly influenced his artistry, resulting in some of the most iconic park images to date. His technical expertise and undeniable beauty of his work paved the way for photography to be exhibited besides traditional paining and portraiture in national galleries.

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While World War II was seen as an honor to the soldiers and their families, it was not enough, they needed photographs. Military cameramen moved in as always with the troops to bring home the pictured facts, the hell of jungle warfare, the dawn of landing day on some corral beach.

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Importance of photographs in World War II

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Importance of photographs in World War II

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To win World War II wasn't enough to tell the American public what they were fighting for, it was necessary to drive home what they were fighting against. The Japanese unfortunately faced horrible treatment in the press in general.

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The big five is in reference to five impactful images taken during World War II.
1. Demonizing the Enemy
2. The Pin-Up
3. D-Day
4. Iwo Jima
5. Evidence

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The Japanese with their unprovoked attack on Pearl Harbor, were singled out as objects of particular hatred. They used propaganda to demonize the Japanese people and everything they stood for.

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During WWII one of the most famous pictures was the back of a young woman back. The war created a fad for pin-ups of all kinds. On barrack walls, in decals, in soldier's wallets. An army publication put it simply. "We're not only fighting for the four freedoms, we're fighting for the priceless privilege of making love to American women."

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This was one of the most anticipated days in American history and because people were not going to be able to see it for themselves they needed photographs of this event.

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One of the great photo icons of all time is a picture that Hoe Rosenthal made of the flag raising on Iwo Jima on top of Mt. Surbachi. One picture, and in that brief moment, Rosenthal's camera seemed to capture the soul of a nation.

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Evidence refers to the images taken at Auschwitz and other concentration camp photos during the Holocaust. These images were proof, people had heard and read about the camps but these images were visual proof of the enormity of the Nazi crimes.

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Fashion Photography was a way for companies to make money off of people wanting to look like the model wearing the piece you want. The camera and photographs are influencing how people wished to look.

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Richard Avedon was one of the leading mid 20th century photographers, noted for his portraits and fashion photographs. He helped set the standard for sleek, urbane elegance in the mid 20th century fashion photography, and his gift for highlighting the allure and drama of his subjects has made him one of the most iconic photographers of the late 20th century.

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Fashion photography sold the look. You had desirable people's looks seen through the camera, in those clothes which looked marvelous under the camera eye.

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The Family of Man was an ambitious exhibition of 503 photographs from 68 countries curated by Edward Steichen.

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Edward Steichen crated what has become the most famous photographic exhibition of all time, The Family of Man. Steichen demonstrated his notion of the oneness ofmandkin d by sorting the photographs in sections, each one of which shows people of varied races and nationalities engaged in similar kinds of activity.

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The Family of Man exhibition was initially conceived as a manifesto for peace and the fundamental equality of mankind. Keeping that goal in mind Edward Steichen decided to achieve the desired effect through the humanistic photography of the post-war years.

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In the mid 1950s a new generation of photographers rejected the perfect lighting and composition of professional picture taking. This photography is about this mass of misconnections and people uncertain of where they're going, and people colliding and cultures colliding and people not seeing each other. It represents this new development in photography.

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Robert Frank was part of the new generation of photographers that rejected the "perfect" set up for a picture. He found new areas of beauty in overlooked corners of American life and in the process helped redefine the icons of America. In his photographs of diners, cars, and even the road itself, Frank pioneered a seemingly intuitive style that was as innovative as his subjects.

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Today we realize that street photography can focus on people and their behavior in public, thereby also recording people's history. This motivation entails having also to navigate or negotiate changing expectations and laws of privacy, security, and property.

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After the Civil War, the Black press dedicated itself to rebuilding Black communities and Black political movements. African American journalism has played a dual role, serving as of purveyors of news and information and as agents of social change. The black press has been a source of black American political power, even among the most difficult times.

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In August, 1955, a fourteen tear old boy was 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 common, Emmett Till's murder may have gone un-noticed, except for this photograph. Published only in the black press, it showed his young face beyond recognition.

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The Emmett Till death sparked an uproar in the black southerns and influenced future generations. The generation of black southerners who became active in the Civil Rights Movement in the late 50s was the Emmett Till generation. Because that generation felt powerless and vowed that one day they going to get even and do something about it.

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The summer of '63 all across the South was on fire. During this time, most pictures that were taken showed inequality during the civil rights movement. It was the peak of the Civil Rights movement and some people have said that Danny Lyon photographed the golden age of the Civil Rights movement.

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Danny Lyon is a photographer during the Civil Rights movements. Lyon's work helped take compelling photographs that helped people understand what was going on during the civil rights.

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The Birmingham Race Riots were very significant movements in history. These riots showed the violence black people were facing during these times. These photographs during this time show the oppression they faced as well.

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1. Quang Doc by Malcolm Brown
2. General Nguyễn Ngọc Loarv by Eddie Adams
3. Phan Thi Kim Phone by Nick Ut
4. Marry Ann Vecchio by John Paul Filo

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This was a shocking photograph of a burning monk who had chosen to burn himself alive because he believed violence was not the answer, this photograph was taken at that time.

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This photograph was taken moments before death was captured. It showed a policeman executing a suspect, at the very moment the bullet was entering this man's brain.

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This photograph shows scared children running down the road and a young Vietnamese girl after been napalmed by the American Army.

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This photograph shows a girl leaning over the prostrate body of one of the slain students with her arms out questioning what happened.

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During the Vietnam War, we covered the war endlessly, week after week and they decided that they should run just faces of a week's dead.

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Life Magazine did this and the entire nation mourned those soldiers. While you would hear about it on the news you could be inundated with it but until you saw those faces, that what brought everyone home.

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This segment Brough by Life Magazine allow people to recognize the sacrifice that these people had been making. It showed a different side of soldiers during the War, it wasn't all about honor and fighting for your country but also about loss and death

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A photographer named STEWART BRAND had wanted to see the Earth. He wanted people to realize how small they were compared to the Universe. This photograph of the Earth put that into perspective and became the front cover of Earth Magazine.

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STEWART BRAND was the editor of the Whole Earth catalog. The catalog overall helped put things into perspective in terms of our universe. This catalog would be used as a tool in the future.

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This catalog influence a lot of environmental movements and helped people realize the importance of taking care of our Earth. Photographs of the Earth made people appreciate and recognize the Earth as something special.

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Apollo 8 was the first Earth photograph. It is extremely monumental and people were drawn to this photograph. This photograph was taken by Bill Anders in 1968 who made us appreciate our earth as a whole.

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Photoshop became something that was easily accessible to everyone. It helped people enhance and make they're photographs better.

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Because photoshop was a thing it now gave people the ability to alter images of missing children in order to help see what they may possibly look like now so that others can to their best to help find them.

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While photoshop had many benefits it was something dangerous. People could now manipulate their photographs and deceive people and make them see what they wanted. Although it was still of great help for a lot of things and continue to be impactful today.

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Photographs of any crime scene now day are a must. When these first were introduced they were used as evidence in many cases because of their reliability.

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Steinberg and his wide were accused of killing their child in a horrible way. This an example of using crime scene photography, these photographs showed clear evidence that something husband, Joel Steinberg had abused both wife and child and was convicted due to the evidence presented.

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Crime Scene photography changed the justice system as a whole. Being able to present undeniable evidence is of great importance to the justice system today. It has added a piece of evidence to trail that helped better the system in terms of deciding if someone is innocent or guilty.

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With the development of technology, because soon became to realize that photographs could be manipulated. This meant a media used for reliability was now in danger of its credibility.

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Because photographs were now able to be manipulated and example of this can be seen in these two magazines compared. In the Newsweek we see the original mugshot however in Times magazine the front cover makes him look like a bad person. This is a prime example of how editors would manipulate photographs and words to their liking.