Photos that changed the world: the 20th centuryFrom the first flight of the Wright brothers to the Normandy landing to Woodstock to the Gulf War, certain photos symbolize whole epochs and have become part of the universal visual memory in a way that few works of paintings have managed to do. Some 90 of the most significant photos of the past 100 years have been selected for this volume to signify events that literally changed the world. |
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Contents
San Francisco Earthquake | 14 |
Armenian Genocide | 29 |
The Crash | 42 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | Photos that changed the world: the 20th century |
| Author | Peter Stepan |
| Editors | Peter Stepan, Claus Biegert |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Prestel, 2000 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Sep 2, 2009 |
| ISBN | 3791323954, 9783791323954 |
| Length | 182 pages |
| Subjects | › › History / Historiography History / Modern / 20th Century History / World Photography / Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / General Photography / Photoessays & Documentaries Photography / Photojournalism |
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