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Author
Publisher
Twenty-First Century Books
Pub. Date
[1998]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Presents photographs of the Civil War along with profiles of the major photographers and descriptions of the difficulties they faced while recording the reality of the conflict.
Author
Publisher
American Heritage Pub. Co., book trade distribution by Simon and Schuster
Pub. Date
[1968]
Language
English
Description
The purpose of this book is to revisit an utterly vanished earlier America by means of photographs running from 1839, where the first daguerreotypes were taken, until the eve of the First World War, which marks the end of an era, or what we may regard as the beginning of our own time
Author
Publisher
Aperture
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
"Yevgeny Khaldei was born in 1917, just months before the Bolshevik Revolution. While he had only four grades of school - poverty forced him to take a job cleaning steam engines - by the age of fifteen he had crafted a camera for himself out of a cardboard box and his grandmother's spectacles. Before long, his heroic images of Soviet life were appearing in Pravda. At age eighteen, Khaldei was hired by TASS." "By the end of World War II Khaldei was...