ABSTRACT
Technology has vastly transformed White House photography over the years, making images of the president more accessible than ever. This has contributed to the celebrity of the presidents and made them extremely familiar to Americans and people around the world. The success of photojournalism has always depended on technological improvements. News photography was greatly enhanced in the 1920s, for example, by the introduction of highly portable cameras containing film that held negative images that could be enlarged. By the 1990s photojournalists were already shooting mostly color, and seldom making actual prints, but used computer technology to scan film directly into the design. The wet plate collodion process in 1851 made photographic images with clarity, reproducibility, and relative speed. In 1928, when news photography was still in its infancy and newspaper editors were beginning to add photo staffs, Erich Salomon changed the direction of photojournalism forever.
