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Americans in Kodachrome (Hardcover)

by Guy Stricherz (Editor)
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  • Hardcover: 120 pages
  • Publisher: Twin Palms Publishers; illustrated edition edition (Aug 2002)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1931885087
  • ISBN-13: 978-1931885089
  • Product Dimensions: 32.2 x 25 x 2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,209,583 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Snapping Art, 22 Jan 2008
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Most families collection of photos, either black and white prints or transparencies can assume mythic status if they are the only visual record of past history. Even beat up, creased and torn images rightly become treasured possessions to be passed from one generation to the next.

The usual criteria for judging photographs obviously don't apply in the family setting but remove images from that setting and I think it's reasonable to take a more critical look at what you see and it here that I think many recent snapshot books fail. They display too many out of focus, badly composed and dull photos and perhaps the greatest fault: too many images that that show people or situations that are just too personal to those involved to mean anything to an outsider.

Fortunately 'Americans in Kodachrome' avoid most of these pitfalls and presents some quite remarkable content rich photographs. The ones I thought worked best capture everyday events and pull you into the image. Photos forty-five and six show a 1964 street parade and a 1947 flag raising (both possibly July fourth?) or photos eighty-nine and ninety showing a family portrait from 1960 and another family sitting in the kitchen having a meal. The detail in these four photos is fascinating and most of the book's images have this amount of interest. There are some duds in my opinion: photo sixty-nine of at teenager eating a watermelon, taken at night is not worth a second look. Photo twenty-six of a baby boy's face with a huge bone in his mouth clearly means a lot to whoever took it but virtually nothing to outsiders who might see it.

Another reason I like this book is because the photos are presented in a formal photobook setting with one large image per page (in 175dpi) generous margins and a one line caption. Other snapshot books I've seen go for picture book look implying that the contents really are no more than 'snaps'. Fifteen photos from the book appeared in the exhibition Close to Home at the Los Angeles Getty Museum and appeared in the book of the exhibition where they were presented with many black and white photos in a rather messy picture book format. They just didn't have the same appeal and stature as they did in 'Americans in Kodachrome'.

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