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Power of Photography: How Photographs Changed Our Lives by Vicki Goldberg

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Summary

Photographs have the power to reveal, to condemn, to celebrate and to catalyze. How that power has been used and abused in the past 150 years is the subject of this book. The photographs are diverse and varied, from Marilyn Monroe to the mushroom cloud of the Atom bomb.

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Power of Photography: How Photographs Changed Our Lives by Vicki Goldberg

The Power of Photography is a seminal work of such importance that it should become mandatory reading in the fields of communications, media, photography, and sociology. Taking specific images from the history of photography. Vicki Goldberg weaves her analysis of the impact that specific images have had on society. The quality of research and Goldberg's keen perception, along with her personable writing style, combine to keep the reader interested and entranced...Unquestionably the only book of its kind. --Choice

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Vicki Goldberg is the co-editor of Photography in Print: Essays from 1816 to the Present and the author of The Power of Photography: How Pictures Transformed Our Lives. She contributes to the New York Times, Vanity Fair, American Photo, and other magazines with articles about photography.

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ISBN 13 9781558594678
ISBN 10 1558594671
Title Power of Photography: How Photographs Changed Our Lives
Author Vicki Goldberg
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Abbeville Press Inc.,U.S.
Year published 1993-08-19
Number of pages 288
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.