American Photography Notes

• NY Daily News = Oldest tabloid newspaper in U.S.
• Front page photo must attract attention
• NY Graphic = most extreme
• Most extreme photos - staged
• Composer graph
• Advertisements NEED photographs
• Public believes photographs (drawings could be a lie)
• Transforms regular objects into objects of desire
• Isolates, monumentalizes, and idolizes objects
• Photography addes new dimension to fame
• Media celebirty
• Anyone could be famous (as long as they looked good in pictures)
• Sports stars = superstars
• Celebrity obsessed century
• Photography neutralized any effect that imagination had on someone's perception