American story told in pictures

Kolkata, Aug 22 (UNI) The face of American humanism came alive here through a series of photographs spanning over a 100 years.

Old photographs are time machines, allowing us to look back in history, freeze a moment of time and imagine ourselves as part of the past.

"Picturing the Century - One Hundred years of Photography from the National Archives of United States " offers a journey into the 20th century that came alive thorugh a collection of remarkable photographs that showed love, love lost and achievements and devastations that moulded the nation into a powerhouse.

Selected from the millions of photographs in the collection of the National Archives of the United States, these photographs illustrate the changes in American Society over the last 100 years.

The exhibit, which has been touring the world since the dawn of 21st century, showcases the work of some of the most outstanding photographers of the 2lst century, such Lewis Hine, Dorothea Lange, Ansel Adams, Edward Steichen, Russell Lee, Danny Lyon and Yoichi Okamoto.

The exhibit also portrays the history of photography and specifically of government photography in the United States. The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), which administers the National Archives, is a federal agency tasked with receiving, caring for and making available the historic records of the US government.

Some of the most touching photos were the soulful faces during the Great Depression in America, two children with sugar beets in their hands looking out into a vast field and the photos of Camp David and power machines.

The exhibition was inaugurated by deputy Chief of US Mission in India Geoffry R Pyatt.

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