The Day in Its Color: Charles Cushman's Photographic Journey Through a Vanishing Amer

[Vics]

By Eric Sandweiss, this seems a marvelous book about the rise of 35mm high quality photography. In this case it's Kodachrome and the Contax IIa. I only saw it breifly in Bookshop Santa Cruz today, but at $39.95 it was a bit rich for my blood. The reproductions of Cushman's excellent pictures are beautiful, and the snippets I read of the text left me wanting more.

 

[lynnb]

Amazon has it for $26.89. Reviews are good and mention the reproduction quality is also good. There's a few sample images on Amazon, although the quality isn't that hot.
http://www.amazon.com/Day-Its-Color...=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1339642443&sr=1-1

 

[Vics]

Yeah, I'll probably buy it on Amazon. It's really a beautiful book, and interested me as I'm a Contax shooter myself, albeit IIIa.

 

[xayraa33]

Charles Cushman made good use of Kodachrome thats for sure.

http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/cushman/browse/index.jsp;jsessionid=B682708707AAECE553CD3EE1A62DA093

 

[charjohncarter]

I've seen this guy's work before. It is an amazing chronicle of the US and Europe and maybe more. But sometimes I think that any photographer taking slides had a heritage to share. And many of their children have thrown them out. My father-in-law was a GAS man but he did take some photos (but I dove in there and saved all his slides). Here are two from the very early 50s:

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