Video Notes (Courtesy of Killz)

• photos become the most important thing when someone loses everything
• emotional memories
• proof of something you're proud of
• sonography & x-ray photos save lives
• Brownie camera
• $1.00
• in production for 80 years
• pre-Brownie: photos taken once in a lifetime
• post-Brownie: photos accessible to simpletons & average Joes
• great slices of social history preserved
• photography = success --> National Geographic
• photography needed human intervention to really be art
• straight photography - "...art would depend on eye of photography..."
• World War II
• war photos raise awareness at home
• magazines prohibited from showing pictures of dead soldiers/death of any kind
• anti-war lobbyists showed pictures to tell truth of modern warfare
• 1900s: photos replace drawings
• newspapers use photos to catch people's attention
• staged photos