American Photography

1. New York Daily News was the first paper that had photographs and was created in 1919.
2. The front page needs to appeal to the senses of the people, so that they buy that newspaper.
3. New York Graphic was the most graphic tabloid there was. It always had the most scandals.
4. Composer graph was when the newspaper took a picture using their staff and pasted in the faces of the people the story was about.
5. In the 1920s photographs started to replace drawings because people would believe that the photographs were always true.
6. Advertising photographs of the 1920s started modernism.
7. Photography added a new element to fame. It was called media celebrity. The more you are seen in pictures and around the world the more famous you became.
8. Babe Ruth was the most photographed person on Earth behind the Prince of Whales. As a baseball player he made $50,000 as a media celebrity he made millions of dollars.
9. People felt that they could relate to celebrities through the photographs.
10. Photography neturalizes any affect your imagination has on what is actually there.