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Taken shortly before Lincoln's Cooper Institute speech. Widely used in his campaign during the 1860 presidential election, both Brady's photo and the speech helped him become president. [24] [s 2] [s 4] Cathedral Rock: 1861 Carleton Watkins: Yosemite National Park, California, United States [s 2] The Dead of Antietam [h] 1862 Alexander Gardner
Berenice Alice Abbott (July 17, 1898 – December 9, 1991) [2] was an American photographer best known for her portraits of cultural figures of the interwar period, New York City photographs of architecture and urban design of the 1930s, and science interpretation of the 1940s to the 1960s.
Joanne Leonard (born 1940), photography of Oakland, Ca, autobiographical and family, and collage beinginpictures.com; Zoe Leonard (born 1961), photography of New York City, photos of the fictional Fae Richards for the film The Watermelon Woman; Rebecca Lepkoff (1916–2014), street scenes on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in the 1940s
V-J Day in Times Square, a photograph by Alfred Eisenstaedt, was published in Life in 1945 with the caption, "In New York's Times Square a white-clad girl clutches her purse and skirt as an uninhibited sailor plants his lips squarely on hers" Alfred Eisenstaedt signing a copy of his famous V-J Day in Times Square photograph during the afternoon of August 23, 1995, while sitting in his Menemsha ...
James H. Karales (1930–2002), photographer for Look magazine from 1960 to 1971, covered the civil rights movement throughout its duration and took many memorable photographs including photos of SNCC's formation, of Dr. King and his associates, and, during his full coverage of the event, the iconic photograph of the Selma to Montgomery march ...
The Berlin Wall fell 27 years ago Wednesday. The imposing wall that divided East and West Germany was constructed in August 1961, and began to fall November 9, 1989.
A Dispatch from Reuters (1940) – biographical drama film about Paul Reuter, the man who built the famous news service that bears his name [1] [2]; Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940) – biographical historical drama film depicting the life of Abraham Lincoln from his departure from Kentucky until his election as President of the United States [3]
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