-keep photos for emotional reasons, record an accomplishment, or show other parts of the world
-Brownie camera: in production for 80 years
-cheap price, anyone could own it
-Luc Sante: postcard photos
-send postcards to other people to show them what's happening in their life
-some were exaggerated photos
-coverage of huge events
-half-tone: allowed photos to be printed multiple times
-National Geographic: printed color photographs
-people would form opinions from photos
-Edgar Curtis: took pictures to document the people who were "disappearing"
-manipulated photos to make people seem happy
-choose what Indians wore, if not right look
-snapshot camera created: anyone could take a picture, not a form of art yet
-would make photos look like art by scratching the negative image, or use brushstrokes to
put chemicals on the images
-made it look like a painting
-handmade process allowed photos to be seen as art
-Frank Gillbrith: photographed every motion of a worker
-helped to eliminate pointless steps in production
-Lewis Eyne: used photos for educational purposes
-used for social change
-Paul Strand: straight photography
-took pictures without manipulating them
-emphasized framing and subject
-War photos
-Wilson used propoganda to raise support for WWI
-no photos of dead American soldiers allowed
-Anti-War party published photographs of dead American soldiers, showed people the
truth
-Daily News: first newspaper to build itself on showing photographs
-composer graph: take a photo and paste a different face on it
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