1933 | North America • USA
| Doris Ullman and Julia Peterkin publishes Roll, Jordan, Roll. (New York: Robert O. Ballou, 1933) |
1933 | Europe • Germany
| Unidentified photographer | Bauhaus Dessau Masters on the roof: left to right, Josef Albers, Hinnerk Scheper, Georg Muche, Lßszlo Moholy-Nagy, Herbert Bayer, Joost Schmidt, Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Lyonel Feininger, Gunta Stölzl, Oskar Schlemmer 1926 (ca) |
| Staff at the Bauhaus dissolve the organization due to political pressure.
The remarkable talent pool of teachers leave Germany before the Second World War - Josef Albers (1933/USA), Vassily Kandinsky (1933/France), Paul Klee (1933/Switzerland), Walter Gropius (1934/Great Britain, 1937/USA), László Moholy-Nagy (1934/Netherlands, 1935/Great Britain, 1937/USA), Marcel Breuer (1935/Great Britain, 1937/USA), Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1937/USA), Herbert Bayer (1938/USA), Walter Peterhans (1938/USA). László Moholy-Nagy goes on to found the New Bauhaus in Chicago (USA) in 1937. (20 July 1933) |
1933 | Europe • France
| Brassaď publishes Paris de Nuit.
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1934 | Europe • France
| Man Ray publishes Man Ray Photographies 1920-1934. |
1934 | Europe • Portugal
| "Portugal 1934" is published as the official propaganda book for the Estado Novo, the right-wing regime inaugurated by Salazar in 1933. It uses photomontage as a propaganda tool. Title | Lightbox | Checklist |
1934 | Europe • France | Exploring the primitive and the unconsciuous mind as expressed through graffiti Bill Brandt publishes a selection of photographs in the article "Du mur des cavernes au mur d'usine" in the Surrealist magazine Minotaure (no. 3-4). (December 1934) |
1934 | Europe • Germany
| Hans Bellmer includes ten of his unsettling black and white photographs of his first doll in Die Puppe (Karlsruhe, Privately published and anonymous) |
1935 | North America • USA | Exhibition at the Julian Levy Gallery in New York of works by Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Henri Cartier-Bresson and Walker Evans. |
1935 | Europe • France | The mystery of the night is explored by Bill Brandt in his piece "Nuits parisiennes" in the Surrealist magazine Minotaure (no. 7). |
1935 | North America • USA | Kodachrome becomes the first color film widely available to amateurs. It is the invention of Leopold Godowsky and Leopold Mannes. |
1935 | Europe • France
| Man Ray and Paul Éluard publish Facile. (Paris: GLM, 1935) |
1935 | Europe • Russia
| El Lissitzky publishes Industriia Sotsializma Edited by B.M. Tal. (Moscow: IZOGIZ, 1935) |
1935 | North America • USA
| Works Progress Administration (WPA) is launched to address some of the social upheavals of the Great Depression and the destruction of the central states by the dust storms. |
1936 | North America • USA | Kodachrome color film |
1936 | Europe • Germany | Agfacolor color film is introduced. |
1936 | Europe • Spain
| Robert Capa takes his most famous photograph Loyalist Militiaman at the Moment of Death, Cerro Muriano during the Spanish Civil War. It becomes one of the seminal war images. (5 September 1936)
Heart of Spain: Robert Capa's Photographs of the Spanish Civil War Robert Capa; Juan P. Fusi Aizpurua; Richard Whelan; Fusi Aizpurua; & Catherine Coleman | |
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1936 | North America • USA
| Arthur Rothstein takes a photograph for the Rural Resettlement Administration (later the FSA) of Fleeing a dust storm. Farmer Arthur Coble and sons walking in the face of a dust storm, Cimmaron County, Oklahoma. It becomes one of the classic photographs of the Dust Bowl.
"The most interesting and dramatic thing to me was to show not the abandoned farms but the relation of the people to their environment: what effect it had on them, their reaction to it. The picture of the man and his two sons seemed to sum it all up." |
1936 | North America • USA
| First issue of the influential photo magazine LIFE comes out in the USA. Its use of the extended photo essay has an influence on generations of photojournalists. (23 November 1936) |
1936 | Europe • Germany
| The Berlin Olympic Games is held and used as an immense propaganda opportunity by the Nazi party. Leni Riefenstahl photographs the athletes and her book, Schönheit im Olympischen Kampf, is published in 1937.
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1936 | Europe • Great Britain
| Bill Brandt publishes The English at Home. |