The companion site to the PBS series of the same name offers a wonderful photographic resource, inviting us to view a century of images through cultural, social, and historical lenses. The site includes sections on art, photography and war, digital truth, presidential image making, persuasion, social change, and cultural identity.
SELECTION LINKS
Dave Powers, Dallas, November 22, 1963
The John Fitzgerald Kennedy Library Museum
http://www.cs.umb.edu/jfklibrary/museum.htm
This companion site for the J.F.K. Library includes photographs of certain documents and artifacts from Kennedy’s life.
The Kennedy Assassination Home Page
http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/home.htm
Put together by John McAdams, this comprehensive site includes an overview of the main conspiracy theories regarding Kennedy’s assassination; annotated links to other Kennedy assassination web pages; an annotated list of featured articles; and a photo gallery.
PAIR
Frank Fournier, Omayra Sanchez
Isabel Allende, Omayra Sanchez
Isabel Allende Resources
http://collaboratory.nunet.net/goals2000/Eddy/Allende/Resources.html
A list of annotated links on Isabel Allende, many dealing with the illness and death of her daughter, Paula.
Dorothy Allison, This Is Our World
DoubleTake
http://www.doubletakemagazine.org/
This online version of DoubleTake magazine, in which Dorothy Allison’s essay first appeared, includes an archive of past issues and a gallery of photographs featured in the magazine.
Nick Ut, Children Fleeing a Napalm Strike
The Vietnam Veteran’s Memorial Wall Page
http://thewall-usa.com
Funded by the private sector, this web page provides information about the names on the Memorial Wall in Washington, D.C.–another way to talk about the ways in which people memorialize tragic or untimely death.
American Treasures of the Library of Congress: MEMORY
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/trm003p.html
A Library of Congress site on the national search and design process behind the Vietnam Veteran's Memorial Wall ties in Nick Ut's photo and the corresponding information on Kim Phuc.
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
http://www.ushmm.org/
The official site of the Holocaust Museum offers online exhibitions, collections, and a searchable library of material related to the Holocaust.
Sports Illustrated magazine, The Man/The Shot
SportsLine: Michael Jordan
http://ww1.sportsline.com/u/jordan/career/splits.html
Sponsored by SportsLine, this Michael Jordan site includes a profile, stats, and a collection of photos.
Don DeLillo, Videotape
Don DeLillo’s America: A Don DeLillo Page
http://perival.com/delillo/delillo.html
This site, run by DeLillo fan Curt Gardner, includes pictures, interviews, a biography and biliography, quotes, and much more.
The Don DeLillo Society
http://www.cofc.edu/~nelp/delillo/links.html
The official site of the Don DeLillo Society "seeks to facilitate the exchange of ideas between scholars, critics, teachers, and general readers" and includes DeLillo links, bibliography, and events.
LOOKING CLOSER: Taking Pictures
George Eastman House: International Museum of Photography and Film
http://eastman.org
This online version of the George Eastman Museum contains a rich trove of material related to the history of the image, including special collections gathered around the history of photography, the motion picture, and technology over the last 150 years.
Kodak as You Go–A History of Kodak Advertisements 1900-1926
http://www.photoarts.com/gallery/kodak
This special exhibit includes ads grouped around such topics as family, Christmas, and women, as well as an essay on the Kodak ad by Sarah Jensen.
The American Museum of Photography
http://www.photographymuseum.com/main.html
This extensive online museum includes a collection of over 5,000 classic photographs, imaginative exhibits on the movers and shakers in the history of photography, and links to other "Photo-History Resources."
Kodak.com
http://www.kodak.com
The official web site of Kodak–providing an easy way to talk about how Kodak advertisements have changed with changing technology–links to online photo exhibitions and to an ongoing project that fits well with this chapter, the "PhotoQuilt of the Millennium."
One Digital Day: How the Microchip Is Changing Our World
http://www-cs.intel.com/onedigitalday/index.htm
Sponsored by Intel, this site displays the photographic results of 100 photojournalists documenting the impact of the microchip on modern life during one 24-hour period around the world.
