Wednesday, November 3, 2010

Class Notes (Nov. 3)

-photos are the most important thing when someone loses everything
-emotional memories, proof of something your'e proud of
-sonograph/x-ray photos save lives
-brownie camera=in production for 80 years, sold for $1
-before brownie camera people only got their photo taken once or twice in their lifetime
-ordinary people could now take pictures
-great slices of social history preserved
-photography made national geographic very successful
-photography needed human interventions to really be art
-WWI-war photos raise awareness at home
-no magazine could show pictures of dead soldiers/death
-anti-war activists showed truth with pictures of modern warfare
-1900's photos relplaced drawings in newspapers
-photos in newspapers catch the audiences eye and attention

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