American Photography Video Notes

• Illustrated Daily News first publication to sell itself based on photographs.
• Want a photograph on the first page that is big, loud, draws immediate appeal on the front page
• Wants a picture that draws emotion to attract attention and get people to buy the newspaper.
• Composograph- pose the photographs using staff and later pasting in the faces of the real stars. Used in the Evening Graphic.
• In photography truth always loses out to fantasy.
• Photograhps helps advertisers give appeal to their products, people think photgraphers are more believable than drawings.
• Camera's give ordinary objects and make them seem extraordinary, helpful in advertising.
• Advertisements are no longer read, they are seen, they revolve around a photographic means.
• Photography added a new dimension to fame, created the new media celebrity (these people look good in pictures)
• Twentieth century astronomy would be unthinkable without photography, would neutralize anything from the picture that one's imagination would create.
• Photography has enabled our five senses to be broadened.