Mardi Gras in Kodachrome
Synopsis
America's greatest party and America's most colorful city, in all their shades, shimmer here in a never-before-published 1950-1960 collection of photographs taken at New Orleans's annual Mardi Gras. Photographer Ruth Ketcham chose the revolutionary Kodachrome slide film to capture Carnival, its walking and parading krewes, bystanders, and masquers. Kodachrome's fade-resistant images preserve a bygone 1950s era, not only of Mardi Gras but also of a bustling French Quarter, alive again with Regal Beer ("Red beans and rice / And Regal on ice"), Dixieland jazz clubs, the burlesque dancers and temptations of Bourbon Street, and the shopper's paradise that was Canal Street.
- Copyright:
- 2019 Charles Cassady Jr. and Mary Lynn Randall
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- ISBN-13:
- 9781439665985
- Publisher:
- Arcadia Publishing Inc.
- Date of Addition:
- 2019-01-07T08:27:56Z
- Language:
- English
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- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.