# Our America: A Photographic History - Hardcover

by **Kenneth Burns** (Author), **Kenneth Burns** (Introduction by), **Sarah Hermanson Meister** (Introduction by)

**From one of our most treasured filmmakers, a pictorial history of America--a stunning and moving collection of some of Ken Burns's favorite photographs, with an introduction by Burns, and an essay by longtime MoMA photography curator Sarah Hermanson Meister**

Burns has been making documentaries about American history for more than four decades, using images to vividly re-create our struggles and successes as a nation and a people. As much as anyone alive today, he understands the soul of our country.

In _Our America_, Burns has assembled the images that, for him, best embody nearly two hundred years of the American experiment, taken by some of our most reknowned photographers and by others who worked in obscurity. We see America's vast natural beauty as well as its dynamic cities and communities. There are striking images of war and civil conflict, and of communities drawing together across lines of race and class. Our greatest leaders appear alongside regular folks living their everyday lives. The photos talk to one another across boundaries and decades and, taken together, they capture the impossibly rich and diverse perspectives and places that comprise the American experience.

### Author Biography

KEN BURNS, the producer and director of numerous film series, including _The Vietnam War, The Roosevelts: An Intimate History,_ and _The War,_ founded his own documentary film company, Florentine Films, in 1976. His landmark film _The Civil War_ was the highest-rated series in the history of American public television, and his work has won numerous prizes, including the Emmy and Peabody Awards, and two Academy Award nominations. He lives in Walpole, New Hampshire.  

**Number of Pages:** 352

**Dimensions:** 2.2 x 11.3 x 12.5 IN

**Illustrated:** Yes

**Publication Date:** November 01, 2022

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