This companion book to the PBS series looks at the power of photography in the twentieth century.

I.Developing Image, 1900-1934 -- Snapshot Revolution 15 -- Photography as Fine Art 21 -- Foreign Peoples, Foreign Places 30 -- Extending Vision: Science and Photography 37 -- Social Reform: The Camera as Weapon 41 -- Capturing Time: Motion Study and Social Control 50 -- Photographing the News 54 -- World War I: The Camera Goes to War 60 -- Advertising Photography 67 -- Cult of Celebrity 77 -- II. Photographic Age, 1935-1959 -- LIFE and the Rise of the Picture Magazines 89 -- Wire Services 96 -- Farm Security Administration (FSA): Documenting the Depression 99 -- MoMA, 1937: The History of Photography Comes to the Museum 104 -- World War II: Censorship and Revelation 109 -- Photographic Instant and Instant Photography 122 -- Fashion Photography 127 -- Sex and Voyeurism 134 -- Family of Man: A Heartwarming Vision for the Cold War World 139 -- Americans and the Dark Side of the 1950s 147 -- III. Photography Transformed, 1960-1999 -- Pop Art, Photography, and the Mass Media 153 -- Surveillance and the Photograph as Evidence 159 -- Civil Rights: Photography and Social Awareness 164 -- Counterculture: Changing Times, Changing Images 168 -- Vietnam: Shooting War 173 -- Portraiture: The Ideal and the All-too-Real 186 -- Photography and the Environment 197 -- New Ethnic (Self-) Representation 209 -- Postmodern Photography 216 -- Digital Revolution 223.