Publisher's Description
KODACHROME: THE AMERICAN
INVENTION OF OUR WORLD, 1943-1959
edited by Els Rijper
18o pages
16o full-page four-color reproductions
25x31 cm (93/4 x 12 -3/4 in.)
Softbound
This is a popular visual history of the world from the American perspective
from the end of the World War II through 1959. This book shows how our image
of lifestyle was formed after the war and how the American point of view in
4-color became our life standard.
Anzio, D-Day, The Yalta Conference (Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin), General
De Gaulle in North Africa, The Concentration Camps in Germany, The Nuremberg
Trials, Japan post-1945, Douglas MacArthur, Audrey Hepburn, Barbara Stanwyck,
Elizabeth Taylor, Jane Russell, Leslie Caron, Joe DiMaggio, Grace Kelly, The
Korean War, The Atomic tests, Rita Hayworth, Grace Kelly, President Truman,
President Eisenhower, Rocky Marciano, Floyd Patterson, Marcel Cerdan, Jackie
Robinson, Elston Howard, Joe Louis, Archie Moore, Yogi Berra, Brigitte Bardot,
Marilyn Monroe, New York street scenes, Rome, Paris, The French Riviera, The
American Militarv, The Rocket Program in the 1950's.