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Ken Burns shows America’s history through photographers’ lenses
Photos make miracles. They make time stand nonetheless. They provide the lifeless again to transient everyday living. Ken Burns, who has used a vocation turning old photos into going documentaries, remembers the first time he was in a darkroom, watching his father, an amateur photographer, establish a print. “An impression began to little by little arise from a blank piece of photographic paper immersed in a tray of bizarre-smelling chemicals… my father’s correct hand agitating the newborn print with metallic tongs,” Burns writes. “To a 3-12 months-outdated, it seemed like magic.” “Our The usa: A Photographic History” by Ken Burns (Alfred A. Knopf) Burns’ new ebook “Our The us: A…