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PBS Books is pleased to host a re-release of highlights of the digital program "Our America: A Photographic History" with award-winning documentary filmmaker Ken Burns. This stunning book explores the greatest human experiment through 261 images between 1839 and 2019 representing all 50 states including portraits, landscapes, and event photographs. Ken Burns reflects on American history and shares insights into making the book.
From one of our most treasured filmmakers, a pictorial history of America—a stunning and moving collection of some of Ken Burns’ 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: A Photographic History," Burns has assembled the images that, for him, best embody nearly two hundred years of the American experiment, taken by some of our most renowned 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 together they capture the impossibly rich and diverse perspectives and places that comprise the American experience.
ABOUT: Ken Burns
Ken Burns has been making documentary films for over forty years. Since the Academy Award nominated "Brooklyn Bridge" in 1981, Ken has gone on to direct and produce some of the most acclaimed historical documentaries ever made, including The Civil War; Baseball; Jazz; The War; The National Parks: America’s Best Idea; Prohibition; The Roosevelts: An Intimate History; The Vietnam War; Country Music; and, most recently, The U.S. and the Holocaust.
Future film projects include The American Buffalo, Leonardo da Vinci, The American Revolution, Emancipation to Exodus, and LBJ & the Great Society, among others.
Ken’s films have been honored with dozens of major awards, including sixteen Emmy Awards, two Grammy Awards and two Oscar nominations; and in September of 2008, at the News & Documentary Emmy Awards, Ken was honored by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences with a Lifetime Achievement Award.
PBS Books is pleased to host a re-release of highlights of the digital program "Our America: A Photographic History" with award-winning documentary filmmaker Ken Burns. This stunning book explores the greatest human experiment through 261 images between 1839 and 2019 representing all 50 states including portraits, landscapes, and event photographs. Ken Burns reflects on American history and shares insights into making the book.
From one of our most treasured filmmakers, a pictorial history of America—a stunning and moving collection of some of Ken Burns’ 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: A Photographic History," Burns has assembled the images that, for him, best embody nearly two hundred years of the American experiment, taken by some of our most renowned 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 together they capture the impossibly rich and diverse perspectives and places that comprise the American experience.
ABOUT: Ken Burns
Ken Burns has been making documentary films for over forty years. Since the Academy Award nominated "Brooklyn Bridge" in 1981, Ken has gone on to direct and produce some of the most acclaimed historical documentaries ever made, including The Civil War; Baseball; Jazz; The War; The National Parks: America’s Best Idea; Prohibition; The Roosevelts: An Intimate History; The Vietnam War; Country Music; and, most recently, The U.S. and the Holocaust.
Future film projects include The American Buffalo, Leonardo da Vinci, The American Revolution, Emancipation to Exodus, and LBJ & the Great Society, among others.
Ken’s films have been honored with dozens of major awards, including sixteen Emmy Awards, two Grammy Awards and two Oscar nominations; and in September of 2008, at the News & Documentary Emmy Awards, Ken was honored by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences with a Lifetime Achievement Award.
