As America huffed its way to the end of the '70s, a change more profound than any one cultural trope's evolutionary death knell was taking place.
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.
"...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 As seen on: Slate.com
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