Picture Perfect: Iowa in the 1940s
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Picture Perfect: Iowa in the 1940s
Full Program: During the late 1930s and early 40s, Everett Kuntz snapped hundreds of photos documenting everyday life in and... 39:58
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Picture Perfect - Youthful Perspective
This segment describes the life of young Ridgeway, Iowa community members and their remarkably loving memories of... 03:48
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Picture Perfect - Everett and His Camera
This segment introduces 1940s Iowa photographer Everett Kuntz and his work. 02:20
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Picture Perfect - Short Preview
An era of 'complete innocence' comes to life in the 1939-1942 photos of Ridgeway, Iowa, taken by Everett Kuntz. 00:30
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Picture Perfect: Iowa in the 1940s
From 1939 until 1942, Everett Kuntz snapped hundreds of photos capturing everyday life in his hometown Ridgeway, Iowa. But it wasn t until 2002, shortly after learning he had cancer, that Kuntz would print the photos. Immediately, he noticed how the images preserved a time thought to be lost forever ... a time when America was still emerging from the Great Depression and rapidly approaching a great war. Yet the photos depict a sense of hope in the people of Ridgeway, an innocence that epitomized the calm before the storm. Kuntz' photographs show the faces, fields and porches of small-town America before World War II and stand as a historical record of both a bygone time and a rural Iowa that's fading away. [52 minutes]
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