Photographic memories: private pictures, public images, and American history

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Arresting moments : revisiting my photo biography -- Photography and immigration -- The history of photography and the photography of history : the afterlife of photographs -- Faces of war : Mathew Brady and Stephen Crane and the verisimilitude of photography -- Cold War photography : putting the best face on it -- An eye foreign eye : un-American photography and the Cold War -- Imaginary Americas in Europe's public space -- Shock and awe in New York City: 9/11 or 9-1-1? : the construction of terrorism through photographs.