HISTORY OF AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHY PT ONE

Hour 1 — "The Developing Image, 1900-1934"
Although photography was invented in the first half of the 19th century, the beginning of the 20th century marked extraordinary changes. For the first time in history, inexpensive hand-held cameras gave ordinary people the opportunity to create their own visual images. Suddenly pictures were everywhere: on passports, in the developing picture press, in science. World War I photographs convinced many reluctant Americans that they had a stake in this distant war. Advertisers embraced photography because of its ability to create a fantasy that seemed to be a plausible reality. By the end of the 1920s, photographs — little flat pictures that came to stand uniquely for the truth — had made their way into virtually every corner of contemporary life.

Видео HISTORY OF AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHY PT ONE канала Rick Buswell