VHS : American Photography - A Century of Images
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starring: Leonard Nimoy, Harris Yulindirected by: Ellen Hovde, Muffie Meyer
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 0794054807332
Format: NTSC
Label: Pbs Home Video
Manufacturer: Pbs Home Video
Number Of Items: 3
Publisher: Pbs Home Video
Release Date: October 12, 1999
Sales Rank: 29851
Studio: Pbs Home Video
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Editorial Review:
Description:
One picture is worth a thousand words - and actions. A simple snapshot can change a person, a society and a country instantly. Trace how photography has profoundly affected American history from the beginnings of the 20th century to the present, where manipulation is master. Fascinating and sometimes shocking, this exposi documents how one little device could seriously change the face of war, influence generations of families, boost the advertising community's wealth and grow from an art form to an image builder practically overnight.
Amazon.com:
Time travel at its best! American Photography: A Century of Images is a remarkably complete, high-caliber PBS presentation of who Americans were and are, using 20th-century images that capture everything from the everyday to the once-in-a-lifetime. While of course you'll see many photographs, some familiar and some new, you'll also learn about the history of our relationship with photography and the ways pictures are used. See the progression from posed to unposed photographs and from picture postcards to digitally enhanced photos that show what a missing child might look like today. Learn about the importance of photography for social causes such as abolishing child labor, the civil rights movement in America, and the way we feel about everything from what we buy and how we dress to how we get the news. Especially interesting is the discussion of how Native Americans have been portrayed--including the photographer who brought a trunk of costumes with him to dress Native Americans the way he wanted them to look in his pictures.
The three episodes, The Developing Image 1900-1934, The Photographic Age 1935-1959, and Photography Transformed 1960-1999, are educational and entertaining. Whether you've enjoyed National Geographic or Life magazine, or are interested in photography or 20th-century history, this will make a great addition to your video collection. --Tara Chace
Customer Reviews
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Rating: - American History through a camera lens
This PBS series shows 100 years of American History and how photography influenced society. Photography makes the unseen visible and brings things isolated to public view. Child labor is abolished, civil rights violations announced to the world, the truth about war is all shown via photography.
This can be used in a photography classroom as well as a history class.
I am a baby boomer and there are many things I didn't understand as a teenager about the civil rights movement and ... Read More
Rating: - "A Century of Images" gets to the heart of America's photographic obsessions
The folks at PBS deserve the gratitude of photography teachers and students everywhere. Taking on subject matter as impossibly broad as photography in 20th Century America? This documentary covers-- sometimes comprehensively, sometimes briefly-- virtually every important topic germane to the field of study, from Pictorialism to Straight Photography, from fashion to the scientific. Along the way, we are introduced (or reintroduced) to what has been the medium's most important uses: journalism and ... Read More
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