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Photos That Changed the World Peter Stepan

Photos That Changed the World By Peter Stepan

Photos That Changed the World by Peter Stepan


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This is a selection of 90 impactful photographs, providing a map of the past 100 years, from the epic to the intimate, the heroic to the barbaric. They have come to symbolize whole epochs in a way that few works of painting have managed to do.

Photos That Changed the World Summary

Photos That Changed the World by Peter Stepan

This is a selection of 90 of the most impactful photographs, that provide a map of the past 100 years, from the epic to the intimate, the heroic to the barbaric, that literally changed our world. Photographs of the Wright Brothers conquering the air; Martin Luther King making his "I have a Dream" speech in Washington; the massacre in Tiananmen Square, do more than report they have come to symbolise whole epochs and become part of the universal visual memory in a way that few works of painting have managed to do.

Table of Contents

The first flight by the Wright Brothers; the San Fransisco earthquake; the opening of Tutankamun's sarcophagus; the Lakehurst airship disaster; the bombing of Pearl Harbour; The Normandy landing; the coronation of Queen Elizabeth 11; Brazil wins the World Cup with Pele; Martin Luther King; the Prague Spring; the first landing on the moon; Woodstock; the Chernobyl nuclear plant disaster; the massacre on Tiananmen Square; Nelson Mandela's release from prison; the Gulf War.

Additional information

GOR001755885
9783791323954
3791323954
Photos That Changed the World by Peter Stepan
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Prestel
2000-09-21
182
N/A
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