Underexposed / edited by Colin Jacobson.
Record details
- ISBN: 1903399211
- Physical Description: 247 p. : col. ill. ; 32 cm.
- Publisher: London : Vision On, c2002.
Content descriptions
General Note: | "based on an idea by Index On Censorship in association with Getty Images". |
Formatted Contents Note: | Don't look now: photographs the public weren't supposed to see -- Restricted vision: censorship in action -- Making choices: confronting or avoiding the issue -- Hidden agendas: propaganda, PR and spin -- Recovered memory: history revisited -- Relative values: culture and environment -- Getting it wrong: ambiguity and confusion. |
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Subject: | History, Modern > 20th century > Pictorial works. Photojournalism. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at GRPL.
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Underexposed : Pictures of the Twentieth Century They Didn't Want You to See
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Underexposed : Pictures of the Twentieth Century They Didn't Want You to See
This is a hidden history of the 20th century, it is a collection of banned, manipulated or distorted images that explore the extreme influence of photography on modern society. Subjects include: Hitler gesticulating in front of a mirror, British concentration camps in South Africa, the exposed body of the Ayatollah Khomeini at his funeral, bodies of journalists killed during the battle for control of the Duma in Moscow and an Irish fascist salute at a group meeting in County Cork.