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Kodachrome Memory: American Pictures 1972-1990 Hardcover - 2013

by Nathan Benn (Photographer); Contribution by Paul M. Farber; Foreword by Richard Buckley

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Nathan Benn was born in Miami, Florida, in 1950 and graduated from the University of Miami with degrees in psychology and mass communications. Immediately thereafter he became a photographer for National Geographic magazine, where he remained for 20 years. He was the Director of Magnum Photos, Inc., the prestigious agency of documentary photographers from 2000–2002. He is a Trustee Emeritus at the George Eastman House Museum and lives with his wife, a fine arts photographer, and son in Brooklyn.

Paul M. Farber is a scholar of visual and popular culture. He has a PhD in American Culture from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Farber is one of the authors of This Is the Day: The March On Washington (Getty Publications, 2013), and his work has previously appeared in Vibe and Criticism, and on NPR. He currently teaches in the Urban Studies program at the University of Pennsylvania.

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  • Title Kodachrome Memory: American Pictures 1972-1990
  • Author Nathan Benn (Photographer); Contribution by Paul M. Farber; Foreword by Richard Buckley
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 168
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher powerHouse Books
  • Date 2013-09-17
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9781576876657 / 1576876659
  • Weight 3.7 lbs (1.68 kg)
  • Dimensions 11.2 x 12.5 x 1 in (28.45 x 31.75 x 2.54 cm)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2013940409
  • Dewey Decimal Code 770.92

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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

About the author

Nathan Benn was born in Miami, Florida, and worked for the Miami News while attending Miami-Dade College and the University of Miami. Immediately after graduation he became a photographer for the National Geographic Society. Three-hundred of his photographs were published in National Geographic magazine, and hundreds more in numerous books. In 1991 he was co-founder and President of Picture Network International, the earliest Internet digital asset management and online stock photo licensing platform. From 2000 through 2002, Nathan was the Director of Magnum Photos, Inc. In 2013 powerHouse Books published his award-winning monograph Kodachrome Memory: American Pictures 1972-1990.
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