American Photography: A Century of Images (PBS)
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A history of U.S. society, culture, and politics as seen through photographers' eyes. Browse through sections on art, photography and war, digital truth, presidential imagemaking, persuasion, social change, and cultural identity and see the impact of photographs. The photomontage in the Image Lab requires Shockwave and Flash. It includes demonstrations of methods of manipulating the ideas presented in a photograph. Also available is a photo shoot of Dorothea Lange's, many of her photographs, and six different images of her famous shot of the Migrant Mother . Transcripts of the public television program, a bibliography, and teacher's guides are available. [A broken link]
http://www.pbs.org/ktca/americanphotography/