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Record Nr.

UNINA9910818483903321

Autore

Sandweiss Eric

Titolo

The day in its color : Charles Cushman's photographic journey through a vanishing America / / Eric Sandweiss

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2012

ISBN

1-283-42715-X

9786613427151

0-19-977309-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (238 p.)

Disciplina

779.092

Soggetti

Photographers - United States

Street photography - United States

Landscape photography - United States

United States Pictorial works

United States History 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Fair collection of interesting pictures" : rediscovering Charles Cushman's day in its color -- Dawn : Indiana beginnings, 1896-1918 -- Morning : an eye for business, 1919-1940 -- Afternoon : death at midlife, 1941-1951 -- Twilight : California, 1952-1972.

Sommario/riassunto

Charles Cushman (1896-1972) photographed a disappearing world in living color. Cushman's midcentury America--a place normally seen only through a scrim of gray--reveals itself as a place as vivid and real as the view through our window. The Day in Its Color introduces readers to Cushman's extraordinary work, a recently unearthed archive of photographs that is the largest known body of early color photographs by a single photographer, 14,500 in all, most shot on vivid, color-saturated Kodachrome stock. From 1938-1969, Cushman--a sometime businessman and amateur photographer with an uncanny eye