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American photography : a century of images

Call Number

  • DVD 770.9 A51272 (CEN)

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Languages

Closed-captioned.

Performers

Narrator, Harris Yulin.

Publication Information

[Alexandria, Va.] : PBS Home Video, [2004]

Physical Description

1 videodisc (ca. 160 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 4 3/4 in.

Audience

Not rated.

Summary

This documentary series is the story of the pictures we have taken and where they have taken us. It traces the profound effect photographs have had on American life-- influencing what we buy, how we dress, how we get the news, and in the matters of life and death, medicine, science, and war.

Notes

Title from container.

Director of photography, Tom Hurwitz ; editors, Sharon Sachs, Eric Davies, Kathleen Dougherty ; music, Richard Einhorn.

Originally broadcast on PBS in 1999.

Contents

  • Pt. 1. The developing image, 1900-1934
  • pt. 2. The photographic age, 1935-1959
  • pt. 3. Photography transformed, 1960-1999.

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