
Kodachrome Memory. American Pictures 1972-1990
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- Nombre de pages167
- PrésentationRelié
- FormatBeau Livre
- Poids1.67 kg
- Dimensions31,0 cm × 29,0 cm × 2,2 cm
- ISBN978-1-57687-665-7
- EAN9781576876657
- Date de parution01/09/2013
- ÉditeurPowerHouse Books
- PréfacierRichard Buckley
Résumé
If ever a camera's shutter could render a subject infinite, these images of people rich and pour, their private spaces and material culture, capture that last America before the last revolution. Nathan Benn embraced color photography before it was considered an acceptable medium for serious documentary expression, travelling globally for .National Geographic magazine for two decades. In revisiting his archive of almost half a million images, and editing his photographs with a 21st-century perspective, he discovered hundreds of unpublished American pictures that appeared inconsequential to editors of the 1970s - 1980S, but now resonate with empathetic insight.
Growing up in South Florida, Benn often felt like a foreigner when lie photographed in the American heartland, a place that seemed to him to be populated by regional tribes with traits like Yankee frugality and enterprise, biases expressed in blackface and KKK cross-burning, and absurdities like a Chihuahua disguised as an elephant. He savored both die diversity and individuality of his subjects, recognising that these characters were vanishing in an age of mass marketing and increasing commodification.
Kodachrome Memory exemplifies forthright storytelling about everyday people and vernacular spaces. The photographs, organized by geographic and cultural affinities (North East. Heartland, Pittsburgh, and Florida), raise questions rather than purport facts; they enchant with elegant forms and unexpected details. An essay by scholar Paul M. Farber contextualizes the creation and selection of these images, and offers a fresh perspective about color photography on the eve of the digital revolution.