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- ISBN 9781439928547
- Weight: 454g
- Dimensions: 229 x 279mm
- Publication Date: 16 Oct 2026
- Publisher: Temple University Press,U.S.
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Tracking the emergence of widespread color photography to the dawn of the digital age, Philadelphia in Color 1950-1990 features hundreds of street photographs, portraits, and family snapshots to document the evolution of architecture, fashion, and expression in American urban life. The depth and grandeur of human experience is recorded in more than 360 color images by more than 200 photographers—many never seen publicly. They are from the collections of famous photographers and architects, including Stephen Shore, Denise Scott Brown, Laurie Olin, and Harvey Finkle, as well as dozens of amateurs, many sourced from archives and family collections. Taken together, they express the passion, pride, resilience, endurance, and flamboyance of a city and its people.
Philadelphia in Color also tells a far more complicated story of how Philadelphians reinterpreted and redefined their city. In essays that contextualize the images, the editors recount how the people of Philadelphia experienced the dramatic economic, racial, and cultural shifts during these decades of deindustrialization and flight.
Philadelphia in Color fills a significant void in the city's visual history, while reframing the conversation about what kind of place Philadelphia was and might be. This is a civic portrait of Philadelphia as deep and dynamic as the city itself.
Nathaniel Popkin is the writer and producer of In Pursuit: Philadelphia and the Making of America (2026), a 10-part documentary series from History Making Productions, and the nine-part series For the Common Good: The Women Who Shaped Our Nation. He is the author, coauthor, or coeditor of several books including The Possible City: Exercises in Dreaming Philadelphia, Song of the City: An Intimate History of the American Urban Landscape, and Philadelphia: Finding the Hidden City (Temple), as well as four novels, most recently Partly Strong, Partly Broken.
Alyssa Shea is a multimedia designer with collaborations spanning agencies, nonprofits, cultural organizations, entrepreneurs, writers, and artists. Her work has appeared in film festivals and art galleries, at book launches and trade shows, in storefronts and congressional reports, on billboards and tea tins. With partners like Hidden City Philadelphia, she is involved in the documentation and preservation of Philadelphia's vernacular history.
Peter Woodall is a former newspaper reporter and producer for public radio. He co-founded the website Hidden City Daily and is the Project Director of its parent organization, Hidden City Philadelphia. He is the coauthor of Philadelphia: Finding the Hidden City (Temple University Press, 2017).
Alison Zeidman is an Emmy-nominated and Writer's Guild Award-winning writer/producer who specializes in political, historical, and educational comedy. She works across TV/film, digital media, and publishing.
