Monday, February 24, 2014
Tuesday, February 11, 2014
First Post, First Quiz, Second Semester
- January 1, 1935 was when the first photo was sent "across the wire".
- The photo that was first sent across telephone wires was of a plane crash.
- The first photo was sent to 25 Cities.
- The Hindenburg was a German airship that caught on fire.
- The Glenn Miller Orchestra performed "In the Mood".
- Life Magazine used the concept of Picture Magic, it was launched in 1936.
- The Depression to combat American Rural Poverty was called the Farm Security Administration. (FSA)
- Gordon Parks was an African-American photographer who worked for FSA.
- The American Gothic painting inspired Gordon Parks' best known photo.
- Ansel Adams was a famous landscape photographer.
- December 7,1941 was when the Pearl Harbor was bombed.
- A pin-up girl was model whose mass produced pictures see wide appeal as popular culture.
- There was a difference of 6 years between when the first photo sent "across the wire" and D-Day.
- Robert Capa took the famous photos on Normandy Beach during D-Day. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Capa
- Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima was a photograph taken on February 23,1945, by Joe Rosenthal.
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