CSPAN3 Lectures In History The Cold War In American Photography July 12, 2024
So last time we are talking about world war ii photography, and the ways that photographers interacted with the war, and tried to capture the war. We ended last time on looking at this image right here the mushroom cloud, that emerged after dropping the atomic bomb on nagasaki in 1945. In many ways, this marks the end of world war ii, but in many ways it marks the beginning of the cold war. Of course nuclear dread, and anxiety hovered over the conflict during the 19 fifties and sixties and even through the 19 eighties to the end of the conflict. Its a fitting image to begin our cost today and ...