Product Description

he power of pictures is celebrated in this portfolio of the most forceful still images of all time. Robert Capa's dispatches from the beach at Normandy and Joe Rosenthal's photographic report of Iwo Jima stirred a nation, as did-in quite an opposite way-Eddie Adams' and Larry Burrows' searing imagery from Vietnam.LIFE thinks outside the box in this book: Did Marilyn Monroe's pinup change the world?Did Harry Benson's photography of the Beatles deplaning in New York in 1964 alter our cultural focus?The pictures in this book are sometimes beautiful, often striking-and undeniably powerful.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #71206 in Books
• Published on: 2003-08-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 176 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9781931933841
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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From Publishers Weekly
Nominated through on-line votes and selected by Life editors, the 100 images in this compendium cover unforgettable moments in "The Arts," "Society," "War & Peace" and "Science & Nature." The photographs are all striking-whether visually or viscerally, artistically or emotionally-but many are difficult to look at. As Gordon Parks writes in his introduction, "these images helped push us toward a change." And so it's possible to revisit the moments when a white crowd in Indiana cheered at the hanging bodies of two black men, when grieving members of AIDS activist David Kirby gathered around his deathbed, when the 1937 bombing of Shanghai left a train station destroyed and a single bloody child alone amidst the wreckage. There are a few lighter moments-the Beatles arriving at JFK in 1964, the American Olympic hockey team celebrating their 1980 landmark victory over the "Soviet machine"-but over all, this gathering of photos shows our darker hours. There's little here that hasn't been reprinted numerous times, but it's a stirring collection nevertheless.
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Customer Reviews

Remarkable Photos
This publication is an important addition to anyone's library who loves to read about history and see them in photographs. As mentioned before above, a lot of these photographs you've seen before. Images included are of children being poor and starving for food, an embryo in the womb, The World Trade Centers, the effects of war, and so on. The photographs will take your breath away, make you wonder how could people do such things, bring tears to your eyes, and maybe even make you feel there is still hope for the world.

These photographs are amazing. I am so glad to have this publication. One picture that grabbed my attention and moved me to tears: Biafra 1969.

All of the pictures were alive and vivid so much so that you will never forget what you see and read. I recommend this publication to enthusiast of photography and history. It deserves well over five stars.

Joy.

Good Variety of Photos
Contains many firsts, the first photograph, autochrome and digital picture. You would have seen most of the photographs in this book before, but didnt know their background. This book describes their background and in a few lines presents a look back at the World since the invention of photography.

Fabulous Book
This is one of the most fabulous photo books I have ever seen. I highly recommend it to anoyone with even the slightest interest of the world they live in. The pictures are poignant, and each picture is also described allowing for a more in-depth knowledge to be gained. An absolutely wonderful book.