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A peculiar paradise : Florida photographs

Benn, Nathan, author, photographer, Posever Curtis, Verna, writer of introduction, Churchward, Charles

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The combined effect of images by Nathan Benn, while on assignment with National Geographic, of his home state with charming anecdotes creates a delightfully vivid, passionate, and subjective look at what adds up to a love letter to the Sunshine State. 'A Peculiar Paradise: Florida Photographs' by Nathan Benn shows its subject--Benn's homestate--at the dawn of the 1980s, during a time when Florida's only true constant was change. Although some regions rested like the state's alligators, staid and satisfied, other areas became a hotbed for the narcotics trade and a hub for Caribbean and South American immigration. This increasing cultural diversity (Miami's English-speaking Caucasian population was in free fall, from 84% in 1950 to just 12% by 1990), and the state's innate peculiarity is captured here with the keen sense of an anthropologist and the glint-in-the-eye of a local.

• Publisher: powerHouse Books
• Subject: Benn, Nathan. / Documentary photography Florida. / Florida Social life and customs Pictorial works.
• ISBN: 9781576879016, 1576879011

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
TR820.5.B435 2018	1	BOOK	ARTS