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

Charles Cushman (1896-1972) photographed a disappearing world in living color. Cushman's midcentury America—a place normally seen only through a scrim of gray—reveals itself as a place as vivid and real as the view through our window.

The Day in Its Color introduces readers to Cushman's extraordinary work, a recently unearthed archive of photographs that is the largest known body of early color photographs by a single photographer, 14,500 in all, most shot on vivid, color-saturated Kodachrom...