Notes on Movie 11/4/10

The Developing Image 1900-1934
• Feb 1, 1990 camera called Brownie looked like a box, price $1
• Before the Brownie people would take pictures once or twice in their life.
• A quarter of a billion sold in first year

Most of the 19th century photos couldn’t use photos in newspapers or magazines
National Geographic – Grovner
o Grovner started to fill magazines with more and more photos
o Colored photos
Edward Curtus
• Takes pictures of Indians
• He brought a lot of cloths and fix them before he took a picture of the Indian
• Photographs many people and made it real
Is photography an art?
• People think its not because you just press a button and that’s it
• Stevus believed that people should recognize photography as an art
• Stevus photos looked like drawings
• Scientific Management
o Frank Gillberth
 Died from a heart attack at the age of 55
o Would take photographs of his workers to see how they work and how fast they work
• Photographs started to have an influence on how they saw the world and what they believe
Jacob Reas
• Started to use photography to photography children in child labor
o Reached the people about child labor
o Photographs went to state and outlawed child labor
Paul Strand
• Used straight photography: do not change the original photo
World War 1
• Most pictured where posed or taken from a far
• Didn’t take that much photos of dead people or soldiers
1900s
• Photos replaced drawings
1919
• Illustrated Daily News would sell itself only from photographs