Watch Decisive Moments The Photographs That Made History online: Episode 2 The Persuaders

Documentary looking at some of the famous photographs of the 1930s from America, Britain, Germany and the USSR, particularly within the context of propaganda. Analyses the photographs and the truth behind them, as well as the use to which they were put and the impact they had. Considers Dorothea Lange and her photograph of a migrant mother during the American Depression, as well as others; photographs of slums in the North East taken for Picture Post in Britain; the work of Heinrich Hoffmann, Hitler's main photographer throughout his career, most of whose work was made into postcards which sold all over Germany; and, the photographs of the White Sea Canal project taken by Alexander Rodchenko which glamourised a great engineering project which was actually a failure and was built by forced labour from the Gulags.

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