Our America: A Photographic History (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780385353014)

From one of our most treasured filmmakers, a pictorial history of America--a stunning and moving collection of some of Ken Burns's favorite photographs, with an introduction by Burns, and an essay by longtime MoMA photography curator Sarah Hermanson Meister

Burns has been making documentaries about American history for more than four decades, using images to vividly re-create our struggles and successes as a nation and a people. As much as anyone alive today, he understands the soul of our country.

In Our America, Burns has assembled the images that, for him, best embody nearly two hundred years of the American experiment, taken by some of our most reknowned photographers and by others who worked in obscurity. We see America's vast natural beauty as well as its dynamic cities and communities. There are striking images of war and civil conflict, and of communities drawing together across lines of race and class. Our greatest leaders appear alongside regular folks living their everyday lives. The photos talk to one another across boundaries and decades and, taken together, they capture the impossibly rich and diverse perspectives and places that comprise the American experience.

Author: Kenneth Burns
ISBN-10: 0385353014
ISBN-13: 9780385353014
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 11/01/2022
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 5.75lbs
Size: 11.30h x 12.50w x 2.20d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 05/01/2022 pg. 14
Publishers Weekly 05/30/2022
Kirkus Reviews 09/01/2022
Booklist 10/01/2022 pg. 13
Shelf Awareness 11/04/2022