Kodachrome Memory: American Pictures 1972-1990 - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1576876659 ISBN 13: 9781576876657

Verlag: powerHouse Books, 2013

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..".while Mr. Benn didn't set out to assemble a book 40 years later composed exclusively of Kodachrome work, it happened that that work made up the bulk of his best-preserved images." -New York Times LENS blog

"Mr. Benn's unshowy compositions and the rich, clear colors of his Kodachrome slide-film makes his images seem both timeless and particular."
-Wall Street Journal

"In picture after picture, America emerges with beguiling freshness"
-The Independent

"[Kodachrome Memory] conjures a by-gone Americana that's poignant, humorous, and full of contrasts: society ladies and impoverished families, vintage cars and aerial crop dusters, lonely rebels and flag wavers. And slide shots evince more surprises from a visually rich era."
-American Photo

"Nathan Benn...filled [Kodachrome Memory] with common place objects and people but his images are the product of careful study and imagination. They evoke a sense of time and place and a true feeling of "Americana." It is a beautiful reflection of the time when both Kodachrome photography and America were celebrated"
-Apogee Photo Magazine

"[National Geographic] always had important messages to convey and Benn did his best to oblige. Yet that is not why his best pictures ravish us today: despite the passage of time...what remains are the elemental seductions of his craft, a four-way love affair between America, Kodachrome, Leica and gorgeous light."
-The Independent

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As America huffed and puffed to the end of the 19705, more than au era was ending. One America was vanishing and simultaneously giving birth to who we are today. Korlachrome Memory : American Pictures 1972-1990 presents a last glimpse of an America that was, the last stand of the old order, the final tired, proud, olive moments of distinctive regionalism before the information age hastened a great cultural flattening. 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.

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• Verlag: powerHouse Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1576876659
• ISBN 13: 9781576876657
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 168