November 4- Video Notes

• Snapshot cameras were only $1.00
• Most people didn't consider taking a picture was art- they though it was just clicking a button
• Pictures soon became postcards

• Taking pictures showed the history, a memory, etc
• These pictures could be seen in a book ONLY if it was glued in the book, otherwise, there were no pictures in book (history books, etc)
• Rayna Green talks about Edward Curtis 
• Rayna says Edward was a "great photographer" because of what and how he took his unique pictures
• Edward focused on Indians.
• He really stressed the importance of them and showing them what their daily life is all about. (hunting groups, family, kids)
• He even packed his car with some native outfits that were put on some on the Indians to make his shot more "native"
• He showed how peaceful they were
•  Photographs really prospered
1. Postcards
2. Newspaper
3. Books
• With Newspapers, they figured out a way to transfer the pictures on the newspaper that really helped spread news around the area.
•  Lewis Hine was a photographer that really stressed about child labor and how it is bad.
• his pictures were all over newspapers showing a perfect child, compared to a child working under poor conditions
•  Paul Strand
• Worked with shapes and forms with the way the sun hit things, and the angles on buildings, etc.
• he liked realism compared to forming these shapes or making them
• he influences others
• Pictures were used in the World War I. 
• it was used to show what is going on with the war
• New papers and Magazines showed dead people or suffering for the first time.