- first paper to seel itself on the basis of pictures
- daily news = oldest newspaper
- on the front page, it needed a picture of something that needed to attract people's attention so they would buy the paper
- hard not to have a good newsday in the 2920's
- tabloid wars: newspapers competed for the most sells
- evening graphic: worst tabloid in the history of america
- staged photographs: showed people complete lies.
- daily news photographer stuck a hidden camera in during the electrocution of a woman who killed her husband. horrible picture
- without photographers advertising would be in a lot of trouble
- people believed photographs were true: knew that drawing could lie but didn't think photographs could
- photography added a new definition to fame
- people could become famous as long as they looked good in pictures
- sports stars became superstars, etc.
- photographers defined a star
- the loss of a celebrity seen only in pictures was as real, or perhaps as real as the loss of a family member
- astronamors used to draw what theysaw in the sky
- photography has enabled humans to see things faster than what we would normally see
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