Video Notes

• the brownie camera was the first camera
• it was $1, so many people had them
• people barely ever took pictures before the brownie
• photography became a democratic art
• photos of foreigners showed America how the rest of the world was (Africa)
• Edward Curtis photographed Indians
• Gilberth used science for photography
• photos were used to try to end child labor
• people were moved and outraged by these pictures
• this led to the outlaw of child labor
• the modernist movement was called straight photography, which took things the way they were with no manipulations
• these photos were abstract and used a lot of shadows
• in World War 1, there were never pictures of dead American soldiers