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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. Images are beautiful bright and vivid. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> This is a book that will change the way you think and feel about some of the most famous photo- graphs in the world. With wit erudition and insa- tiable curiosity about the way photography has interfered in human affairs Vicki Goldberg exam- ines the significance of over one hundred images. Although many of these pictures are so deeply familiar they’ve become part of the communal memory bank others that are almost unknown have also deeply marked our lives. The compelling stories of how they helped create heroes sway elections or condemn men to death are new and profoundly revealing. Even if you thought you knew these images well their histories will surprise you and their impact give you pause. From the X ray to the mind-expanding first view of Earth from space photographic images have been changing people’s minds and rearranging the way they live. Governments have used photo- graphs to spy on their citizens and citizens have used them to reform their governments-from the damning photographs of the Communards in nineteenth-century Paris to the social propaganda of photographers like Dorothea Lange Gordon Parks and others. Records of horrors like the con- centration camps and the My Lai massacre have made the unbelievable undeniable. Photographic portraits created celebrities- think of the pinup of Betty Grable which so inspired the Gls in World War II that she became an emblem of what they were fighting for. A few photographs achieved status as icons: the raising of the flag on Iwo Jima the mushroom cloud of the atom bomb the revolutionary portraits of Chairman Mao and Che Guevara. And photographs can lie as they (MP)