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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sandweiss, Eric.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cushman, Charles W., 1896-1972.

Cushman, Charles W.

Photographers--United States--Biography.

Photographers.

Street photography--United States.

Street photography.

Landscape photography--United States.

Landscape photography.

United States--Pictorial works.

United States.

United States--History--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (238 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-283-42715-X

9786613427151

0-19-977309-2

OCLC:

769344083