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Title:

American photography [videorecording] : a century of images / produced by KTCA St. Paul/Minneapolis in association with Middlemarch Films, Inc. ; written by Ronald Blumer ; produced and directed by Muffie Meyer and Ellen Hovde.

Format:

[videorecording] :

Publisher:

PBS Home Video,

Copyright Date:

2004

Description:

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

Subject:

Photography--United States--History--20th century.
Documentary films.
Films for the hearing impaired.

Other Authors:

Meyer, Muffie.
Hovde, Ellen.
Blumer, Ronald.
KTCA-TV (Television station : Saint Paul, Minn.)
Middlemarch Films.
PBS Home Video.

Notes:

Originally produced in 1999.

Contents:

Part 1. 1900-1934 : The developing image. "You push the button, we do the rest"The developing image -- Rayna Green : reflections of Edward Curtis -- Scientific management -- Straight photography -- World War I -- Objects of desire -- Celebrity -- Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson : extending vision -- Part 2.1935-1959 : the photographic age. Pictures through a wire -- Life -- The FSA picturing hard times -- World War II : five photographs: demonizing the enemy ; Pin-up girl ; D-Day ; Iwo Jima -- Evidence -- The family of man -- "the Emmett Till generation" -- Part 3. 1960-1999 : Photography transformed. Getting the story out -- Vietnam : four photographs: Quang Duc ; General Nguyen Ngoc Loan ; Phan Thi Kim Phuc ; Mary Ann Vecchio -- Deborah Willis : picturing ourselves -- Photos -- The photo-op -- Tales from the digital age -- Appropriating pictures.

Summary:

The story of the pictures we have taken and where they have taken us. The series 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.

ISBN:

9780793695225
0793695228

OCLC:

(OCoLC)61279597

UPC:

841887000239

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

MXPG943 -- Fort Dodge Public Library (Fort Dodge)

YCPD572 -- Hiawatha Public Library (Hiawatha)

SOAX911 -- Simpson College - Dunn Library (Indianola)

CAPH522 -- Iowa City Public Library (Iowa City)

AXPF626 -- Oskaloosa Public Library (Oskaloosa)