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Hour 3 - "Photography Transformed, 1960-1999"
The power of the photographic image is undiminished in the latter part of the 20th century, even though it faces new challenges from television and elsewhere. The series looks at surveillance photography and the Cuban Missile crisis, searing images from the Vietnam War, Civil Rights violence, image-driven celebrity, the growth of photography as an art form, carefully controlled Presidential "image politics," and the challenge to photographic truth when computers have the ability to alter photography without detection.
One thing is clear: despite new technologies, still images - whether captured on film or as electrons - will endure. There will be other flag raisings over other Iwo Jimas, other footprints on distant planets. We may think we have seen it all, but we cannot even imagine the images yet to come.