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Stricherz, Guy (Editor/Photographer) & Other Contributors.
AMERICANS IN KODACHROME: 1945-1965.
Santa Fe, NM: Twin Palms Publishers, 2002. Hardcover. First Edition/First Printing. 116 pages. As New/As New. Landmark retospective collection of color photographs. Now considered a late-modern photography classic. One of the most important and most beautiful photography books of the new century. Limited Edition of 5000 copies. A vibrant production by Jack Woody, Arlyn Eve Nathan and Axel Ziegler: Oversize-volume format in oblong shape. Rich red silk cloth boards with black titles embossed on spine, as issued. Photographs found, annotated and re-printed by the great photographic print-maker Guy Stricherz. List of Plates and Afterword appended at the end. Printed on thick glossy stock paper in Hong Kong to the highest standards. In pictorial DJ with titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Presents some of the finest examples of photographs taken using the very first color process known as Kodachrome, which has proved to be one of the most vivid and stable of all color processes that have been developed since then. The widespread use of Kodachrome coincided with the postwar prosperity that made America the world's unrivalled superpower. The decade after the Second World War, 1945-1955, is now regarded as America at its most glorious and the "Vietnam Era" of the 1960's, America at its most turbulent. Kodachrome was there to record it all. "A photographic portrait of Americans during that mythical time between the war that we won and the one that we lost, when everything seemed possible until we found it was not. Gathered from across the country for the creation of, by, and for the people, these pictures form a democracy in Technicolor. Each image is a mystery with a private meaning unknown to us, yet each holds a truth common to us all" (Guy Stricherz). A marvellous collection, bathed in poignant nostalgia and enduring splendor. This copy is prominently and beautifully signed in blue pen on the title page by Guy Stricherz. This is the only signed copy of the regular First Edition available online and has no flaws, a pristine beauty. The alternative is the Deluxe Edition, which sells for $600.00. A rare signed copy thus. 92 color plates. Some of the most beautiful color photographs ever taken. A flawless collectible copy. . ISBN 1931885087. $150.00 |
