https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f Timeline of American Photography 1900-1999 en-us 2021-11-15 16:20:40 UTC 2025-10-08 15:12:12 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f4f7.png bj2997 https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1897553927 In 1900, a photography equipment company called Kodak, founded by George Eastman, produced a consumer camera called the Brownie that introduced snapshot photography to the public at the cheap price of $1. In the first year, Kodak sold 100,000 Brownie cameras to people across America. ]]> 2021-11-17 17:42:13 UTC https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1897553927 bj2997 https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1897572798 1908 was the year that Kodak invented a way to print the photos that people took on their Brownie cameras onto postcards, at no extra cost, to mail to distant family and friends of the public.]]> 2021-11-17 17:49:54 UTC https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1897572798 bj2997 https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1897585255 Gilbert Grosvenor was born October 28, 1875 and died February 4, 1966. In 1905 he used the new halftone printing technology to print photographs from around the world directly into his magazine, then a struggling National Geographic, to gain popularity and wealth very quickly.]]> 2021-11-17 17:55:16 UTC https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1897585255 bj2997 https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1898110818 Edward Curtis was born February 19, 1868 and died October 19, 1952. He is most known for his documentary photographs of Native American groups and individuals between 1900-1930s. The images showed the culture and history of minority native groups despite some causing controversy.]]> 2021-11-17 22:48:34 UTC https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1898110818 bj2997 https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1898133567 This photo called "The Flatiron" taken by Edward J. Steichen exemplifies a technique of pictorial photography where they smeared Vaseline onto the lens or image itself to make it appear like a handmade piece of art, like paintings.]]> 2021-11-17 23:11:20 UTC https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1898133567 bj2997 https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1898692083 Frank Gilbreth was born July 7, 1868 and died June 14 1924. Between 1910-1924, he conducted motion studies on workers in different industries, using photography, to improve efficiency of production.]]> 2021-11-18 04:51:50 UTC https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1898692083 bj2997 https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1898781923 Lewis Hine was born September 26, 1874 and died November 3, 1940. He was a sociologist and photographer who between 1908 and 1924 used photography to spread awareness about child labor leading to its ultimate outlaw in 1938.]]> 2021-11-18 06:13:28 UTC https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1898781923 bj2997 https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1900042560 Paul strand was born October 16, 1890 and died March 31, 1976. He is most known for founding straight photography, a form of modern photography that focuses on sharp focus and detail of photos, in 1915, from the influence of pictorialism and finding new ways of taking photos.]]> 2021-11-18 16:46:23 UTC https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1900042560 bj2997 https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1900081735 Propaganda photography is the use of photographs to rally a group of people to a cause. It was utilized a lot in WWI by the US to gain public support and get more men to fight in the war.]]> 2021-11-18 17:02:40 UTC https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1900081735 bj2997 https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1900713483 Tabloids were a type of newspaper that focused on attention grabbing stories rather than actual news. They focused on sensationalized stories revolving sex, scandals, slayings, and sports to gain popularity amongst the working class in the 1920s onward.]]> 2021-11-18 23:11:37 UTC https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1900713483 bj2997 https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1900863489 George Hurrell was born June 1, 1904 in Cincinnati, Ohio and died May 17, 1992. He was known for his great talent in the arts with painting and, most prominently, photography where he photographed wealthy individuals starting in the mid to late 1920s and photographing for prominent companies and celebrities until his death.]]> 2021-11-19 00:50:10 UTC https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1900863489 bj2997 https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1900928866 Alfred Stieglitz was born January 4, 1864 and died July 14, 1946. He is most well known for being a part of the efforts of photographers to prove that photography is just as meaningful and can be as labor intensive as other art forms. Pictorialism was an approach to photography that emphasized beauty of subject matter, tonality, and composition rather than depicting reality. The movement was popular in the early 1900s, declining in popularity by 1915.]]> 2021-11-19 01:20:01 UTC https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1900928866 bj2997 https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1901053234 George Eastman was born July 12, 1854 and died March 14 1932. He was most known for inventing the Brownie camera that dominated the consumer industry and marked the beginnings of photography's vast evolution in the twentieth century.]]> 2021-11-19 02:13:20 UTC https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1901053234 bj2997 https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1901166122 John Wesley Hyatt was an American inventor born November 28, 1837 and died May 10, 1920. He is most prominently known for simplifying the creation of celluloid, artificial plastic, in 1872 that would be used to make the Brownie camera possible by coating the paper used to create film so that it could be used in a camera.]]> 2021-11-19 03:03:11 UTC https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1901166122 bj2997 https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1901208670 This photo is one taken by Alfred Stieglitz towards the end of his pictorial phase of photography. It was deemed one of his first "modernist" photos.]]> 2021-11-19 03:24:28 UTC https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1901208670 bj2997 https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1901403504 The postcards had the area on the front that was traditionally meant for pictures or drawings, but now was able to house photographs with the back looking like the image above with places to write messages on.]]> 2021-11-19 05:34:08 UTC https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1901403504 bj2997 https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1901431294 In 1903, during what was considered the "Golden Age" of picture postcards, Kodak released a camera that was designed to shoot postcard sized negative photos. This was before colored photos were widely available/manufacturable.]]> 2021-11-19 05:58:43 UTC https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1901431294 bj2997 https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1901448063 One of the first photos that Gilbert Grosvenor printed directly onto the National Geographic newspaper using halftone printing was of a temple in Lhasa Tibet in 1905, a photo sent to him in the mail. This issue along with the ones that followed interested the public and made the newspaper grow in popularity very quickly]]> 2021-11-19 06:12:59 UTC https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1901448063 bj2997 https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1901468089 In 1914, National geographic printed it's first autochrome, or natural colored photograph, which differed from the painted colored photos at the time.]]> 2021-11-19 06:28:14 UTC https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1901468089 bj2997 https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1901490270 Frank Gilbreth used lights that wrapped around a workers wrist or body part and using long exposure photography would be able to determine the motion path of the worker. From this he would be able to shorten the motion to improve efficiency.]]> 2021-11-19 06:45:42 UTC https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1901490270 bj2997 https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1902542060 This photo is among the many photos that Lewis Hine used to advocate against child labor in 1916 ]]> 2021-11-19 17:00:12 UTC https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1902542060 bj2997 https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1902551778 Frank Gilbreth performed his motion studies not only through the long exposure photos with the light, but also through motion picture. He would set up a timer in frame to show the time it took to complete the task and compare to his own, improved processes.]]> 2021-11-19 17:05:03 UTC https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1902551778 bj2997 https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1904039422 2021-11-21 04:29:37 UTC https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1904039422 bj2997 https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1904040036 2021-11-21 04:30:44 UTC https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1904040036 bj2997 https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1904065347 Boys working in a bottle factory in Indianapolis Indiana]]> 2021-11-21 05:16:30 UTC https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1904065347 bj2997 https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1904072993 This photo, taken 1916, by Paul Strand introduced some of the first purely abstract photographs to the public, testing how shapes are related to each other and how spaces are filled to see what truly makes up a picture.]]> 2021-11-21 05:32:43 UTC https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1904072993 bj2997 https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1904074645 This photo, taken 1916, "immediately became an icon of the new American photography, which integrated the humanism of social documentation with the boldly simplified forms of modernism" according to New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art.]]> 2021-11-21 05:36:08 UTC https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1904074645 bj2997 https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1904082260 The main way that the US used photography as propaganda for war efforts was by portraying the US army as happy and a positive, uplifting thing to take part in. By purposefully ignoring the tragedies and negative sights commonly found in war, leading to people continuing to go against war efforts, the US used these positive looking images to encourage patriotism and support.]]> 2021-11-21 05:50:15 UTC https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1904082260 bj2997 https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1904083207 2021-11-21 05:51:56 UTC https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1904083207 bj2997 https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1925587191 In the 1930s, the Associative Press needed an invention to transmit photos as fast a words so everyone could get the news in a faster, more efficient way. This led to the use of high-fidelity telephone lines to transmit the dark and light colors of an image into sound waves that could be received by whoever was on the other end of the wire, which could be hundreds of miles away.]]> 2021-12-02 16:34:35 UTC https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1925587191 bj2997 https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1925588199 Murry Becker was born 1909 and died in 1986 from cancer. He was a photographer for the Associative press most well known for his photographs of the Hindenburg Explosions in 1937, photos that showed the great importance and power of the new wirephoto technology]]> 2021-12-02 16:34:55 UTC https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1925588199 bj2997 https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1925590214 Arthur Fellig, better known as WeeGee, was a photographer and photojournalist best known for photographing many images that included urban life, crime, injury, and death. He would follow emergency services and take pictures as they worked on a scene.]]> 2021-12-02 16:35:49 UTC https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1925590214 bj2997 https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1925596015 Henry Luce was born April 3, 1898, and died February 28, 1967. He was an American Magazine publisher and influential figure in America at the time where he created multiple magazines that transformed journalism, one of those being Life Magazine in 1936.]]> 2021-12-02 16:38:28 UTC https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1925596015 bj2997 https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1925597007 Dorothea Lange was born May 26, 1895, and died October 11, 1965. She was an American Documentary Photographer most well known for her Depression-Era work for the Farm Security Administration (FSA), a government-established organization initially used for propaganda to gain support for President Roosevelt's economic programs for the economic crisis. FSA photographers including Dorothea Lange, Arthur Rothstein, Russell Lee, and Walker Evans captured 250,000 photos within 6 years.]]> 2021-12-02 16:38:53 UTC https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1925597007 bj2997 https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1925597456 Gordan Parks was born November 30, 1912, and died March 7, 2006. He was a photographer hired by Roy Stryker to the FSA to photograph racial discrimination in New York City, something that Gordan himself was not exposed to prior to this position.]]> 2021-12-02 16:39:05 UTC https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1925597456 bj2997 https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1925597967 Ansel Adams was born February 20, 1902, and died April 22, 1984. He was a landscape photographer and environmentalist who initially took photos that went unnoticed, but with the Great Depression and War, it became a way of escapism for most and a way of promoting environmentalism once people started to notice the effects of war.]]> 2021-12-02 16:39:20 UTC https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1925597967 bj2997 https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1925598333 World War II started on September 1, 1939, and ended on September 2, 1945. The big five were five photos that changed and influenced the course of the war and world wide public opinion.]]> 2021-12-02 16:39:29 UTC https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1925598333 bj2997 https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1925612052 Richard Avedon was born May 15, 1923, and died October 1, 2004. He was a fashion and portrait photographer. He was best known for photographing woman in beautiful dresses that appealed to many people, mainly woman who after seeing his photos wanted the dresses the women wore.]]> 2021-12-02 16:45:13 UTC https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1925612052 bj2997 https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1925612790 On January 24, 1955, the museum of modern art in New York City presented an exhibition called "The Family of Man", organized by Edward Steichen. The photographs were of people from around the world that promoted the idea that mankind is one and that we are all connected. This held a lot of significance due to the war preceding it.]]> 2021-12-02 16:45:31 UTC https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1925612790 bj2997 https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1925613246 Robert Frank was born November 9, 1924, and died September 9, 2019. He was a Swiss photographer who became an American binational. He was most well known for his photos that separated and contrasted with the professional photography that overwhelmed the industry and instead showed the gritty, sort of depressive reality that many Americans lived in comparison to the advertised "American Dream".]]> 2021-12-02 16:45:43 UTC https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1925613246 bj2997 https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1925633782 Emmett Till was a 14-year-old African American who was lynched on August 28, 1955, after being accused of whistling at a white lady in her family's grocery store. The photograph of his dead body was published by the Black press and was gruesome and influenced many black southerners to fight for their rights and equality in the Civil Rights Movement that took place in the late '50s and '60s.]]> 2021-12-02 16:54:06 UTC https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1925633782 bj2997 https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1929918570 One of the most popular tabloids was called the Daily News. They gained a lot of attention in the early years of tabloid journalism with this cover image of Ruth Snyder being executed by an electric chair, an image that a journalist for Daily News took secretly using a hidden camera.]]> 2021-12-05 21:21:01 UTC https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1929918570 bj2997 https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1929921364 2021-12-05 21:25:28 UTC https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1929921364 bj2997 https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1929923715 This is one of many celebrity photos taken by George Hurrell, this one in particular was of a very famous movie star at the time, Joan Crawford.]]> 2021-12-05 21:29:30 UTC https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1929923715 bj2997 https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1929925010 2021-12-05 21:31:30 UTC https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1929925010 bj2997 https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1929941494 This was what the operators of the telephone lines looked liked at work during the 1930s and what the operators for these images would look like as well.]]> 2021-12-05 21:58:41 UTC https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1929941494 bj2997 https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1929944376 This was the first wire photograph that was transmitted via telephone lines and showed the importance of the new technology. The image was simultaneously being transmitted to 25 cities around America.]]> 2021-12-05 22:03:25 UTC https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1929944376 bj2997 https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1929946057 This is what wire photos were being transmitted and received using the machine in the photo above. It would transmit black and white colors into frequencies that would then be transmitted back into color on the receiving end.]]> 2021-12-05 22:06:21 UTC https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1929946057 bj2997 https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1930074079 Becker was one of very few photographers ready with the camera at the time of the explosion due to photographers already capturing the landing before.]]> 2021-12-06 00:55:24 UTC https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1930074079 bj2997 https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1930086578 This is the camera that Murray Becker used to capture the Hindenburg explosion]]> 2021-12-06 01:05:29 UTC https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1930086578 bj2997 https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1930109710 2021-12-06 01:23:20 UTC https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1930109710 bj2997 https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1930111479 2021-12-06 01:24:49 UTC https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1930111479 bj2997 https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1930229654 This was the first edition of Life Magazine and it was the first of its kind to use pictures to tell stories rather than words. It was an immediate success and took over the journalism world and market due to the universal understanding/interpretation of images and photos versus words that have limitations in terms of language.]]> 2021-12-06 02:49:20 UTC https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1930229654 bj2997 https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1930237220 After great initial success, Life Magazine soon perfected and widely used the format of photo essay during the time of the Great Depression. These photo essays would use pictures to tell a story with a beginning, middle, and end.]]> 2021-12-06 02:54:52 UTC https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1930237220 bj2997 https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1930270674 2021-12-06 03:19:27 UTC https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1930270674 bj2997 https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1930285015 Roy Stryker was born November 5, 1893, and died September 27, 1975. He was an American government official and photographer who was bad at photography but great as a talent scout which he showed while finding photographers for the FSA. He was responsible for hiring some of the most prominent photographers such as Dorothea Lange, Arthur Rothstein, Russell Lee, and Walker Evans.]]> 2021-12-06 03:29:05 UTC https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1930285015 bj2997 https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1941292444 This photo was one of the first photos that Gordan took once joining the FSA and it was powerful in that it captured the state and low place Black Americans had in society.]]> 2021-12-11 01:37:40 UTC https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1941292444 bj2997 https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1941295125 This image depicts the sort of situation and environment common to experience not only in large cities such as New York, but all around the country with blacks and whites being forced to use different things such as water fountains (like in the image above), bathrooms, schools, parts of restaurant with blacks in the back and whites in the front, and schools.]]> 2021-12-11 01:41:30 UTC https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1941295125 bj2997 https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1941346508 2021-12-11 02:49:59 UTC https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1941346508 bj2997 https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1941347139 2021-12-11 02:50:52 UTC https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1941347139 bj2997 https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1943174013 At the start of the war, it was more affective for the US government to show what they were fighting against instead of what they were fighting for, and as a result the country started to demonize Japanese and sent them to internment camps for what happened at Pearl Harbor.]]> 2021-12-12 20:28:44 UTC https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1943174013 bj2997 https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1943174285 At the height of the war, an image of a woman named Betty Grable grabbed the attention of many service men who saw her as a symbol for what America was fighting for; American woman. This started a new form of modeling called pin up and the models were called pin-up girls which used photographs of attractive woman to appeal to men, especially service men.]]> 2021-12-12 20:29:01 UTC https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1943174285 bj2997 https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1943174568 The Normandy Landing, a.k.a D-Day, was on June 6, 1944. The invasion of Allied forces took place in Normandy with over 150,000 troops being sent. Magazines and Newspapers wanted photos of the event as soon as it started. Life sent John Morris to France who then hired Robert Capa, who captured the Spanish Civil War, to capture phots of the invasion which he successfully did. Only 11 photos out of 4 rolls of film made it out in time due to rushed processing.]]> 2021-12-12 20:29:19 UTC https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1943174568 bj2997 https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1943175204 The battle of Iwo Jima started on February 19, 1945, and ended March 26, 1945. Iwo Jima is an island in Japan and once the American troops claimed victory, a photo of several troops hoisting up a flag pole with an American flag atop Mount Suribachi became very popular and a symbol for unity for Americans.]]> 2021-12-12 20:29:54 UTC https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1943175204 bj2997 https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1943175443 Photos of concentration camps made the world realize the horrific things that actually happened to the Jewish population and changed human consciousness world wide.]]> 2021-12-12 20:30:08 UTC https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1943175443 bj2997 https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1943207112 The exhibit gained so much popularity that it brought people into museums for the first time in their life and a book was created so that it could connect and reach more people.]]> 2021-12-12 21:02:33 UTC https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1943207112 bj2997 https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1943213686 2021-12-12 21:10:05 UTC https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1943213686 bj2997 https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1943218550 2021-12-12 21:15:36 UTC https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1943218550 bj2997 https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1943218888 2021-12-12 21:15:59 UTC https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1943218888 bj2997 https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1943225975 2021-12-12 21:23:58 UTC https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1943225975 bj2997 https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1943226399 2021-12-12 21:24:21 UTC https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1943226399 bj2997 https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1943254520 2021-12-12 21:59:26 UTC https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1943254520 bj2997 https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1943256960 This is a photo of Emmett Till's killers who were acquitted from their murder charges by an all-white jury. They both later admitted to killing Emmett in an interview and still faced no charges This sparked outrage in the black community and influenced protests and the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement.]]> 2021-12-12 22:02:39 UTC https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1943256960 bj2997 https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1947969937 Danny Lyon was born March 16, 1942, and is 79 years old. He is an American photographer and filmmaker who is most well known for his photographs of the Civil Rights movement and Segregation in the South.]]> 2021-12-14 20:22:05 UTC https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1947969937 bj2997 https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1947971742 The Birmingham race riots was a civil disorder and riot in Birmingham, Alabama that resulted from bombings intended to kill African American leaders of the Birmingham Campaign, a civil rights mass protest group. The photographs from this event were what changed public opinion both domestically and worldwide.]]> 2021-12-14 20:23:06 UTC https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1947971742 bj2997 https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1947973015 This photograph, taken by Malcolm browne, had an immediate impact back in the US with President Kennedy questioning his Vietnam Policy as soon as he saw the photo.]]> 2021-12-14 20:23:54 UTC https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1947973015 bj2997 https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1947973718 Life magazine Weeks Dead was a series of photographs of people killed in the Vietnam War that really impacted how people saw the war and their support for it.]]> 2021-12-14 20:24:22 UTC https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1947973718 bj2997 https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1947974244 Prior to the Apollo 8 mission, there were no photos ever taken of Earth from space. This mission was the one where the first ever photos of Earth were take and shared around the world sparking pro Earth and ecological movements and the first Earth Day.]]> 2021-12-14 20:24:44 UTC https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1947974244 bj2997 https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1947974550 Stewart Brand was born on December 14, 1938. He is an American Writer who contributed and brought up the question "why isn't there a picture of the whole?" He is most well known for this and being the founder of the Whole Earth Catalog.]]> 2021-12-14 20:24:56 UTC https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1947974550 bj2997 https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1947975159 It is believed that ever since photography was invented, it was used for crime scenes and to document criminals in the form of mugshots.]]> 2021-12-14 20:25:21 UTC https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1947975159 bj2997 https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1947975730 The Photo Op, or Photo Opportunity is a term used for the arranged opportunity to take a photo of a politician, celebrity, or notable event. This is a thing due to these individuals holding such high significance that portraying them in a negative way or in a way separate from what is expected would be detrimental to their reputation.]]> 2021-12-14 20:25:40 UTC https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1947975730 bj2997 https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1947976458 David Turnley wad born June 22, 1955. He is a an American photographer and winner of the Pulitzer Prize, two World Pres photos of the Year, and the Robert Capa Award for Courage for his photographs of the Gulf War.]]> 2021-12-14 20:26:02 UTC https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1947976458 bj2997 https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1947976883 When computers were introduced and widely available to the public, the development of digitally edited photos began. This was usually very blatantly edited photos, but still threaten the legitimacy of photography, hence why professional photographs were forced to not edit their photos. ]]> 2021-12-14 20:26:14 UTC https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1947976883 bj2997 https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1947977551 Andy Warhol was born August 6, 1928, and died February 22, 1987. He was an American artist, film director, and producer, most well known for his contribution to abstract art in which he utilized photographs to produce.]]> 2021-12-14 20:26:38 UTC https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1947977551 bj2997 https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1947978092 Throughout the course of the twentieth century, photography had grown to be a very large part of American society. From the creation and exchange of picture postcards...]]> 2021-12-14 20:26:59 UTC https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1947978092 bj2997 https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1947981504 Not only has photography helped us capture history, it has also helped us as humans connect in a way never seen before. We were able to see distant places for the first time in our own home.]]> 2021-12-14 20:29:09 UTC https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1947981504 bj2997 https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1948028109 2021-12-14 20:59:23 UTC https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1948028109 bj2997 https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1948557617 This photo out of all of the others capturing the war was one that symbolized, for many, everything that had happened in the war, changing public opinion.]]> 2021-12-15 03:37:49 UTC https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1948557617 bj2997 https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1948616099 This photograph was one that allowed Americans to feel immersed in the horrors and traumatic scenes of the Vietnam War, changing public opinion and creating empathy for innocent citizens caught up in the war.]]> 2021-12-15 04:28:21 UTC https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1948616099 bj2997 https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1948621558 This photo was taken at Kent State University where on May 4, 1970, students protested governmental action regarding the Vietnam War. This photo was of one of the students kneeling over one of four students killed during the protests wondering why something like that would ever happen.]]> 2021-12-15 04:33:46 UTC https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1948621558 bj2997 https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1948637837 This is an image of the first Earth day following the photos taken on the Apollo 8 mission. The view of Earth as a mixture of complex land and water and clouds made people realize it is our home and worth protecting.]]> 2021-12-15 04:49:51 UTC https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1948637837 bj2997 https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1948639291 2021-12-15 04:51:19 UTC https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1948639291 bj2997 https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1948651259 The Whole Earth Catalog was a magazine that had its first issue in 1968 and last issue in 1998. The magazine was founded by Stewart Brand and was used to share things from how to garden, and how to self-hypnotize. It was aimed at those that were also a part of the back-to-the-land movement.]]> 2021-12-15 05:03:52 UTC https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1948651259 bj2997 https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1948651725 2021-12-15 05:04:22 UTC https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1948651725 bj2997 https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1948698936 This then developed into regular use of photographs in the court room to provide long lasting evidence for a case. This proved to be extremely helpful and significant especially when trying to grab at the emotions of the jury which can be done with photos (i.e. one photo of a corpse and one photo of that person alive and happy).]]> 2021-12-15 05:58:02 UTC https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1948698936 bj2997 https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1948708160 A prominent example of the use of photographs in a case to change the story of the crime was at the trial of Joel Steinberg. Steinberg and Hedda Nussbaum were accused of murdering a 6 year old that lived with them, but photographs of Nussbaum with bruises on her body showed that she was just as much of a victim as the little girl, so Steinberg was convicted instead of both of them.]]> 2021-12-15 06:08:02 UTC https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1948708160 bj2997 https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1948732008 In this photo of presidential candidate Gary Hart was taken and used against him, showing him having an affair. This photograph of him is what caused him to drop out of his campaign and why the Photo Op is so important.]]> 2021-12-15 06:33:21 UTC https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1948732008 bj2997 https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1948739333 This photograph was taken of President Ronald Reagan during his reelection campaign in 1884. This photo was taken with the word leadership deliberately placed over his head to give the impression that he is a leader. Photos like this solidified the use of photos rather than film for photo ops because it portrays impressions which grab at viewers more than film where they get the substance or idea.]]> 2021-12-15 06:39:56 UTC https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1948739333 bj2997 https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1948756783 This photo was the award-winning photo of David Turnley. It depicts the reality of soldiers with the man on the left crying realizing that his best friend was the dead body in the bag to the right.]]> 2021-12-15 06:55:10 UTC https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1948756783 bj2997 https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1948764135 Photo of David Turnley after going a-wall due to government censorship for photographers photographing the war.]]> 2021-12-15 07:01:17 UTC https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1948764135 bj2997 https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1948783791 Digital editing got to the point where it could be used for other, more practical uses like editing photos of children who went missing years ago to create a photo of what they might look like in the present day.]]> 2021-12-15 07:16:12 UTC https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1948783791 bj2997 https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1948793427 With the introduction of the digital camera, the introduction of limited storage became a factor with many photographers using digital cameras having to delete photos in order to create space. The image above is a photo of Monica Lewinsky hugging president Clinton, a photo deleted by other news outlets due to digital cameras, but kept by the one photography still using film, Dirck Halstead. Lewinsky turned up to be the one that Clinton had an affair with during his presidency.]]> 2021-12-15 07:23:36 UTC https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1948793427 bj2997 https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1949906599 Laurie Simmons was born October 3, 1949. She is an American artist, photographer and filmmaker. She contributed to the development of photography art during a time where photographs were used to convey messages. This image above was used to express how the human experience has become so secondhand that can be recreated with toy figures.]]> 2021-12-15 16:37:32 UTC https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1949906599 bj2997 https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1949920647 Art pieces like these were created by Andy Warhol using photographs to create the abstract, blown out pieces like the one above to help people question what photograph is and be creative with it.]]> 2021-12-15 16:43:13 UTC https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1949920647 bj2997 https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1950004240 To technological advancements...]]> 2021-12-15 17:17:50 UTC https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1950004240 bj2997 https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1950010935 To the capturing of celebrities. Photographs not only have photographed the history of photography, but of all history in the twentieth century and gives us a way of looking back on what happened in a way unknown prior to this time.]]> 2021-12-15 17:20:57 UTC https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1950010935 bj2997 https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1950036050 We were able to appreciate human nature and connectivity following a time of despair and conflict.]]> 2021-12-15 17:32:36 UTC https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1950036050 bj2997 https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1950053151 And build connections with those we have never even met, all thanks to photography.]]> 2021-12-15 17:40:06 UTC https://padlet.com/bj2997/fc0n9qira74bw16f/wish/1950053151