Thursday, January 6, 2011

Ten Points

  • Illustrated Daily News first newspaper to sell based on photos.
  • New York Tabloid was the most "scandalous" and contained the most sexual material.
  • Composagraph - staged pictures with pasted in pictures of people's faces
  • Ruth Snyder's execution because the Daily News snuck in a hidden camera.
  • Advertising - people started using photography to advertise thier products to make even the dullest object look appealing to buyers.
  • Babe Ruth - first person to use their pictures on advertisements.
  • Before photography became an influence, Astronomers would have to draw what they saw through the telescope.
  • Astromomers then started to use photography to show that what they say was in fact real and not in their imagination.
  • Photography enables us to see things we are not capable of seeing with the naked eye.
  • Pictures allow people to connect with family they have never met.

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