American Image: 150 Years of Photography

DateSeptember 8 1988

Can DescriptionsSpecials; X4933; American Image Rec. 9/9/88 Air Master

Abstract[Viewer alert: some disturbing images of racism, death and children in distress] Special: American Image -- 150 years of photography; Black and white still images, color images, with a voice-over including photographer quotes; Hal Holbrook describes how a photograph is made, and the early history of the photographic studio; the kinds of photographs are noted; more than 300 photographers captured the moments of the U.S. Civil War; the pioneer cameraman captured the westward movement and the tribes being forced off the land; big business and big technology soon take center frame, but it is also killing the children; black screen breaks; photojournalism combines the power of frozen action and lively words from all corners of the community; 35 mm film increases the ease of taking pictures almost everywhere; the art of photography is described; the use of photographs to document classes or groups of people, locations or activities is described; official family histories are kept by the casual photographs taken every day; with the invention of color, the framing as well as the pallet became important in an image; reality is soon tested by advertising photography: from what it is to what you want it to be; instant processing adds another quality to image-making;

OtherIn the studio Debra Shapiro, Bob Comiskey, Dick Amaral, Susan Lawrence, Jeff Brawer, Sheldon Mirowitz, Joe Doyle, John Baynard, David Skillicorn, Jim Fripp, Curt Reichenbach, Joe Soucar, Doug DeVitt, Alan Pratt, George Ellard, Yu-Ling Wang, W. Scott Obreza, Jayne Raphael, Geoff Sullivan, Lisa Borge, Bill Frewald, Richard Katz, Sumner Shain, Jim Tilson, Jim Lowell, John F. Boyle III, J.I. Laughinghouse, John Breen, Rob Crowley, Bruce Goldman, Carolyn Stirling, Molly Lynch, Debbe Attenberg, Ann Hobart, Mark Vadney, Kerry Bitner, Wayne Dudley, Gerri Powers, Sheila Stockbridge, Ed Andre, Jack Barry, Willis Peligian, Leona McCarthy, Martin W. Sandler, Carol Weiss, Jack Naylor, Elizabeth Cheng, Dick Amaral, Paul LaCamera, Naylor Museum of Photography, Boston, Martin Sandler Productions;