PBS American Photography - A Century of Images

Vietnam Photos

1) Budist Monk 2) Street Execution 3) Napalm Girl 4) Kent State Protest

WWII Photos

1) Women with a skull 2) Pin-Up Girls 3) D-Day 4) Iwo Jima 5) Evidence (concentration camps)

WWI Photos

B/W, censored, soldiers just standing around posing, marching, playing baseball with gas masks, ect. never showed an American causality.

Malcolm Browne

Burning Budist Monk -Vietnam War (not censored at ALL)

Gulf War Photo

David Turnley of man in helicopter

David Turnley

Escaped his govt. agent to take real pictures during the Gulf War (CENSORED)

John Filo

Kent State Protest, Vietnam War May 4, 1970

Frank Gilbreth

Motion studies about assembly line speed, put lights on peoples fingers

Alfred Stieglitz

Photo secessionist movement

Robert Capa

Photographed D-Day, World War 2

Edward Curtis

Photographed NAs as he saw them/ dressed them up with feathers ect

Frank Matsura

Photographed NAs as they really were

George Hurrell

Photographed celebrities, used lighting and shadows make life in Hollywood very glamorous, always b/w

Danny Lyon

Photographed civil rights movement, 20 years old, took pictures at the children's march (police used water hoses and dogs against children)

Richard Avedon

Photographed fashion photography

Ansel Adams

Photographed very large landscapes, b/w - acutally photographing the weather

Dorothea Lange

Photographer for FSA (organization that was trying to help people out of poverty during the great depression) Famous photo: Migrate Mother

Gordon Parks

Picture of Ella Watson, civil rights movement/ racial discrimination and FSA photographer.

Paul Strand

Straight Photography

Eddie Adams

Street Execution - Vietnam War General Loan

William Klein

Took pictures of chaos, b/w (Klein and Chaos)

Murray Becker

Took pictures of the Hindenburg, only photos that were taken of the explosion. Lakehurst, NJ

Pictorialists

Took pictures to make it look like art. Ex: put vaseline on lenses, painted chemicals on/ scratched the negatives, ect., looked like paintings.

Nick Ut

Vietnamese Girl Kim Phuc Running after Napalm Attack Vietnam War

Lewis Hine

Was hired by child labor community, photographed child labor to bring people aware and to help laws get passed.

Margaret Bourke-White

World War 2 (filtered- didn't control the images, wasn't as graphic as Vietnam) , Holocaust/concentration camps

Joe Rosenthal

World War 2 Marines Raising The Flag at Mount Suribachi