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.
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.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.