Video Notes

• "The Daily News" is the oldest newspaper in the United States
• big pictures are used on newspapers to attract attention and get people to buy them
• people knew that drawings could lie, but photographs were true in advertising
• people would buy things because they were attracted to the photographs in the advertisements
• a camera can elevate any object into something magnificent
• a cigarette lighter could be turned into an object of desire
• people are moved by pictures of celebrities
• 20th century astronomy would be unthinkable without the photograph
• astronomers used to look through telescopes and draw what they saw
• photography allows us to see things in the univers that the naked eye cannot see