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Herbert Hoover, Franklin Roosevelt, and the Candid Camera
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Candid camera photography appeared in the late 1920s, made possible by smaller, more portable cameras capable of producing intimate photographs of seemingly unguarded subjects. So-called miniature cameras transformed the ways that photography depicted political leadership and deliberation. This chapter analyzes how Herbert Hoover and Franklin Roosevelt reckoned with the candid camera’s ways of picturing politics. When photographed by pioneering candid camera photographer Erich Salomon, Hoover failed to properly perform the candid camera’s new visual values of access, intimacy, and energy. Roosevelt sought to control the impact of the candid camera on his political image in part by limiting the visibility of his disability.
Title: Herbert Hoover, Franklin Roosevelt, and the Candid Camera
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Candid camera photography appeared in the late 1920s, made possible by smaller, more portable cameras capable of producing intimate photographs of seemingly unguarded subjects.
So-called miniature cameras transformed the ways that photography depicted political leadership and deliberation.
This chapter analyzes how Herbert Hoover and Franklin Roosevelt reckoned with the candid camera’s ways of picturing politics.
When photographed by pioneering candid camera photographer Erich Salomon, Hoover failed to properly perform the candid camera’s new visual values of access, intimacy, and energy.
Roosevelt sought to control the impact of the candid camera on his political image in part by limiting the visibility of his disability.
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