Summary: The 1930s brought to all Americans the explosion of mass media devoted to distributing photographic images. Magazines like Life and Look—dedicated to telling stories, primarily through photographs—were rapidly growing in popularity. An Associated Press “wire photo” could be sent anywhere instantaneously, and suddenly, millions of people were seeing the same pictures at the same time. Through...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1999
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Summary: The power of the photographic image remains undiminished in the latter part of the 20th century, even though it faces new challenges from television, technology, motion pictures, and elsewhere. Photography Transformed examines surveillance photography and the Cuban Missile crisis, searing images from the Vietnam War and the Civil Rights violence—while highlighting the transformation to the new...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1999
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Summary: Although photography was invented in the first half of the 19th century, the beginning of the 20th century marked extraordinary changes. The Developing Image travels back to the very first time in history when inexpensive hand-held cameras gave ordinary people the opportunity to create their own visual images. Through archival footage and interviews with historians and notable photographers,...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1999