Tuesday, September 14, 2010

American Photography

Photography has changed a great deal throughout the history of America. Not only are pictures just pictures to people, they"re very important, in the sense that they capture a piece of their loved ones and display memories that were captured by the camera. Pictures and photos soon took on a different role as they started influencing  everyone's lives. Pictures affected the ways people started to view things, such as clothes and pictures of the world. And as someone said, "What you see in an ordinary picture has extroadinary powers"
The first box camera came out on February 1st, 1977. And after the box camera came the brownie cameras. For some, taking pictures was too expensive, and so when the box camera came out and it only cost $1, everyone wanted one. And once the cameras were out in stores, people started taking pictures all the time. A quarter of a million Brownies were sold during that time period. After the Brownies, photos started changing as well as cameras. 
Photos soon turned into postcards. And soon enough, people figured out how to print photos right onto paper, such as the newspaper and magazines. Photos soon became used worldwide in newspapers, showing people the stories of America. And soon after this, colored photos were made. People could now have color on their photos, rather than just having it be white and black. And like someone said, "The wonders of the world were on your doorsteps."

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