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More than one thousand photographs celebrate the people and places of America in a photographic tribute that captures some 150 years of American history, culture, lifestyles, and diverse character of a nation, in a collection of images drawn primarily from the Hulton Getty Picture Collection. 35,000 first printing.

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Martin W. Sandler is the author of more than thirty books, two of which have been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. His book, The Story of American Photography/An Illustrated History for Young People received the Horn Book Award. He has also won many awards for his television work. He was the creator and co-writer of the acclaimed This Was America twelve-part television series. Sandler has taught American History and history of photography at both the University of Massachusetts and Smith College. He has lectured extensively in photography and is currently a consultant in photography to the Disney Institute.
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DK. 2000. 1023p. photogs. index. ISBN 0-7894-6806-9. $50. PHOTOG Compiling photographs to convey a sense of time and place is not nearly as easy as some might think. Weighing in at ten pounds, America: A Celebration! could fool readers into thinking that it contained every photograph ever shot in America. Instead, it is Sandler's harvest of 19th- and 20th-century photos from the files of Getty Images, an enormous photo library. The ethic behind this bulk seems to be that more is more, and why show less if you can show it all? Though some 19th-century work begins the book, the 20th century quickly takes over. Photographs are clustered by decade. But within each chapter the assembly is random a little landscape here, some celebrities there, popular culture foibles sprinkled in, and a visual chaos throughout. Sandler (American Images) had his book blessed by a fine foreword by Walter Cronkite. But the author's enthusiasm turned into a jumble of pictures rather than a coherent historical portrait of America. Not recommended. LIFE magazine remained true to its purpose of giving readers/viewers their world in weekly visual nuggets since its own life began in 1936. It weathered television for six decades, finally ending as a monthly in May 2000. LIFE: Century of Change is a volume built on 723 photographs from the magazine's rich archives. Suffering lives appear next to riches in this book, so broad it is forced to be shallow, racing across the surface of a century with a well-aimed camera in hand. Less a tool for learning than a snapshot, this is a gift book to spark memories rather than an effort to open up the 20th century for review. Recommended as a book for browsing if budgets allow. In Photos That Changed the World, Stepan (Icons of Photography) gives us 105 images that had the lasting visual power to capture a moment that could be the image of an era held in the instant of a shutter's click for distribution to a generation. Many of the photographs collected around the theme of "changing the world" are familiar. Some were used as propaganda; all are useful as our tie to the events they depict. Sometimes their photographers are anonymous because of fear of reprisals, and many of the images were widely reproduced to build public opinion. The photos are well reproduced and gain from the explanations of time, place, and context included in the excellent short essays that accompany each. Recommended. David Bryant, New Canaan Lib., CT
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  • PublisherDk Pub
  • Publication date2000
  • ISBN 10 0789468069
  • ISBN 13 9780789468062
  • BindingHardcover
  • Edition number1
  • Number of pages1024
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