| 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). |
| 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 | 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 • 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
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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 | North America • USA | Kodachrome color film |
| 1936 | Europe • France
| Georges Hugnet publishes La Septième Face du Dé (Paris: Jeanne Bucher, 1936). |
| 1936 | Europe • France
| Hans Bellmer publishes La Poupée (Paris: G.L.M, 1936). |
| 1936 | Europe • Great Britain
| Bill Brandt publishes The English at Home. |
| 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)
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| 1937 | North America • USA
| The airship Hindenburg explodes at Lake Hurst, New Jersey with the loss of 36 lives. Black and white shots are by taken most of the press photographers present including a sequence of three in rapid succession by Murray Becker (Associated Press). 35mm color Kodachrome photographs are taken by Gerry Sheedy (New York Sunday Mirror). (6 May 1937) |
| 1937 | Europe • Great Britain | In the UK the Mass Observation project is founded to record the everyday lives of common people in minute detail. It does not produce the volume of photographs of the FSA in the USA but Humphrey Spender takes 900 photographs for his Worktown project.
Humphrey Spender's Humanist Landscapes: Photo-Documents, 1932-1942
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| 1937 | North America • USA | Edward Weston receives the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellowship - the first awarded to a photographer. |
| 1937 | North America • USA | First issue of Popular Photography published (May 1937) |
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