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Decisive Moments: the Photographs That Made History: The Persuaders

BBC Two
on BBC Two England

The programme looks at three famous propaganda photographs.
In the Soviet Union, Alexander Rodchenko recorded the engineering triumph of the White Sea Canal, but edited out the human cost.
In Nazi Germany, Heinrich Hoffmann made his fortune as Hitler's favourite photographer.
In California, Dorothea Lange posed a migrant mother with her children to create one of the most enduring images of America in the Depression.
(Stereo)

Contributors

Unknown:
Alexander Rodchenko
Unknown:
Heinrich Hoffmann
Unknown:
Dorothea Lange
Director:
Clare Beavan
Producer:
Tim Kirby
Source: Radio Times

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