movie notes

• photographs matter of life and death that we take for granted
• some photos become huge parts of history and are proof that something really did happen
• brownie camera
• $1.00
• small and solid
• few controls
• original kodak too expensive for most people
• picture postcards --> newspaper photos
• books didnt have pictures because it took too much money and time to hand glue them
• National Geographic magazine
• 1905
• pioneered the printing of color photos
• Edward Curtis
• photographed American Indians
• developed people's perception of what Indians should look like
• dressed his subjects in clotehes he thought they should wear to fit people's stereotypes
• people started editing photos
• painted chemicals to look like brush strokes
• scratched negatives
• tried to make them look like paintings
• became big part of industrial field
• Gilbert - invented a motion detector for cameras
• used photos to improve conditions
• housing reform
• child labor
• straight photography
• took things the way they looked in real life
• focused on framing and line, shape, and form
• censorship
• government doesn't want anyone to see pictures of dead soldiers
• people started staging photos