1934 - Photography

Photography

Fuji Film is founded in January to make movie film; it will grow to dominate Japan's still-film market and compete with Eastman Kodak worldwide.

German authorities arrest photographer August Sander's son Erich for anti-Nazi activities, find Sander's pictures objectionable because they conflict with the idealized image of heroic racial purity, order his publisher to destroy all the printing blocks for his book Face of Our Time (Antlitz der Zeit), order all copies of the book to be seized, and ransack his house. Now 57, Sander has to give up portrait work and confine himself to landscapes, industrial architecture, and nature studies in order to earn a living.

The first photograph to be transmitted by radio appears October 18 in the London Daily Mail, having been sent from Melbourne.