Saturday, May 12, 2018

Neil Montanus - The Coloramas

Neil Montanus - The Coloramas

From the 1950s until 1990, Kodak’s Coloramas were familiar to millions of commuters in New York City's Grand Central Terminal. Coloramas were promoted by Kodak as “the world’s largest photographs” and called “technically remarkable” by Ansel Adams, who photographed several. The towering backlit transparencies were 18-feet high and 60-feet wide, each illuminated by more than a mile of tubing. There was a new one approximately every three weeks - 17 in a typical year - for some 35 years

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