An obituary appeared in The New York Times this week for Neil Montanus, a former Kodak photographer who died at the age of 92. Montanus had a long, successful career as a commercial photographer but is perhaps best known for his colossal images of idealized American life produced as Colorama photographs. In 1950, Eastman Kodak Company installed the first Colorama in Grand Central Terminal, New York. Billed as the world’s largest photographs, a mile of cold-cathode tubes lit Kodak transparencies creating 16-feet-wide-by-18-feet-tall images of family rituals, exotic travel, sporting events and icons. Montanus photographed 55 of the 565 Coloramas that appeared in Grand Central Station.
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