1934 | Europe • France
| Man Ray publishes Man Ray Photographies 1920-1934. |
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) |
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) |
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. |
1935 | Europe • Russia
| El Lissitzky publishes Industriia Sotsializma Edited by B.M. Tal. (Moscow: IZOGIZ, 1935) |
1935 | Europe • France
| Man Ray and Paul Éluard publish Facile. (Paris: GLM, 1935) |
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 | 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 | The mystery of the night is explored by Bill Brandt in his piece "Nuits parisiennes" in the Surrealist magazine Minotaure (no. 7). |
1936 | Europe • Germany | Agfacolor color film is introduced. |
1936 | Europe • France
| Georges Hugnet publishes La Septième Face du Dé (Paris: Jeanne Bucher, 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 • France
| Hans Bellmer publishes La Poupée (Paris: G.L.M, 1936). |
1936 | North America • USA | Kodachrome color film |
1936 | Europe • Great Britain
| Bill Brandt publishes The English at Home. |
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 • 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." |
1937 | North America • USA
| As the USA is in the Great Depression of the 1930s the Farm Security Administration (FSA) is established by the Department of Agriculture. It employs many socially committed photographers to record the lives of everyday people. The archive they produce becomes one of the historical treasures of the USA. (September 1937) Title | Lightbox | Checklist |