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Dust Bowl Started
The dust bowl was a good mental lot for photographers because there was a lot for them to photograph. The dust bowl lasted throughout the 1930's -
Kodak Introduced KODALITH Film
This replaced the collodion wet plates used in the graphic arts industry. -
The First 8mm amateur motion-picture film, cameras, and projectors were introduced
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F/64 Movement
Eleven photographers announced themselves as Group f/64: Ansel Adams, Imogen Cunningham, John Paul Edwards, Preston Holder, Consuelo Kanaga, Alma Lavenson, Sonya Noskowiak, Henry Swift, Willard Van Dyke, Brett Weston, and Edward Weston. They had discussed forming a group devoted to exhibiting and promoting a new direction in photography that broke with the Pictorialism then prevalent in West Coast art photography. -
Documentary Photography
Photographers of the 1930's pushed the genre of documentary photography for the public and were put into museums and art gallaries. Some of the photographs were shown to the public to change societies views. -
Wirephotos change newspapers
Made famous by the Lindbergh Trial and the death of Roy Rogers. -
The FSA Picturing Hard Times
Farm Security Administration (Roy Stryker) documents the Dust bowl and the Great Depression -
Life Magazine uses photos to tell a story (photo essay)
A photo essay is a picture that tells a story with a distinct beginning, middle, and an end.
