| 2010/02/07 People Pictures
Within that imposing spectrum, the technology of the early 20th century continued developing, pulling a weary world’s population into one of the most robust rebuilding periods in human history.In the arts, photography, specifically, was of major significance due to its way of attaching technological development to the way we looked at and regarded ourselves as a people.Photography became a new and important means of visual language, establishing itself as the most democratic of communication forms. The outbreak of World War I and its inherent violence engendered a new commitment by the world's photographers to document every aspect of the fighting, ending an era of In A Patriotic Mole, A Living Photograph, Louis Kaplan, of Southern Illinois University, writes, “The so-called living photographs and living insignia of Arthur Mole [and John Thomas] are photo-literal attempts to recover the old image of national identity at the very moment when the United States entered the Great War i...
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