1920-1930's in Europe and Russia

The Russian civil war was between the red army and the white, both had propaganda however the success was varied between the sides. The red army was much more organised and had a strong clear message in their posters whereas the white army was disorganised and their support was more dispersed than the red army so the red's were able to reach more audience as they took control of influential cities and towns. 

El Lissitzky

Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge

El Lissitzky is the creator of the poster that was used as propaganda for the Red army in the Russian civil war between the Red and the White army. 

By the positioning of the shapes and the way the red wedge dominates the image and the position of it taking over the white circle it is possible to infer that El Lissitzky was creating a positive piece of propaganda supporting the Red army (Bolsheviks) 

The constructivist style that he has created this poster in uses geometric shapes to convey 

 " El Lissitsky was able to make express a feeling emotion or opinion by simply applying geometric shapes to his picture. "

http://utopiadystopiawwi.wordpress.com/constructivism/el-lissitzky/beat-the-whites-with-the-red-wedge/

Alexander Rodchenko 

Rodchenko was a Russian Constructavist who combined typography with photography and printing coloured blocks, to create photomontages, his most well known poster is an advertisement for books and this has been influential in many aspects as the album cover for Franz Ferdinand shows.

Impressionism and Art Nouveau

Box Brownie

One of the first produced box brownies

1900 - The first of the famous BROWNIE Cameras was introduced. It sold for $1 and used film that sold for 15 cents a roll. For the first time, the hobby of photography was within the financial reach of virtually everyone (Kodak)

It had a fixed focal length and only a single shutter speed however because it was available to everybody this camera was the birth of "snapshot" / candid style photography, which is still a genre today.

He marketed the cameras at young people, this is because he saw that the masses would be able purchase the camera at such a low cost and he would sell many rolls of film, as every household would be able to purchase a camera.

" The February 1900 Trade Circular lists a 6 exposure roll of transparent film at $0.15, paper-negative film at $0.10, and $0.40 for processing them! "

Eadweard Muybridge

He was looking at capturing movement in a series of images, this was started by a bet that when a horse runs at one point all four feet are lifted above the ground at once. He set up a row of motion sensored cameras and got a rider to run the horse infront of them, this is then presented as a series.

He continued working in this style of capturing movement using different subjects such as people and birds, one series he created shows a young child climbing off a chair.

Horse in Motion

" setting up a series of fifty cameras parallel to the race track. By connecting their electrically controlled shutters to trip wires lain across the track, he ensured each one automatically took its own picture as the horse sped by. " WildFilmHistory

Sources

http://www.kodak.com/ek/US/en/Our_Company/History_of_Kodak/Milestones_-_chronology/1878-1929.htm

http://www.brownie-camera.com/5.shtml

http://www.wildfilmhistory.org/person/180/Eadweard+Muybridge.html