Kodachrome: The American Invention of Our World 1939-1959

230 pp. The book opens with a selection of rarely reproduced color images from the Depression through the early days of World War II. The bright, cosmopolitan atmosphere of the 1939 World’s Fair in New York contrasts with a foreboding glimpse of Hitler’s pre-war Berlin. Early photographs of the devastation in Warsaw and London are presented together with pictures of sharecroppers and homesteaders in the United States.