Author: Campanaro , Sam; Martyn Czamanske
Title: The Kodak Colorama Babies. Original Poster with 15 Babies
Description: Eastman-Kodak, 1983. Poster. 11 x 40 inches. Creases on sides.. "For forty years, the Kodak Colorama hung on the east end of the Great Hall at Grand Central Station. The 18 x 60-foot back-lit transparency was called the biggest photograph in the world, and Kodak photographers changed it about once a month.. Usually, there were idyllic scenes of happy, shiny white people taking photographs in gorgeous American landscapes, all the better to encourage you to take more pictures yourself. Which makes it hard for me to believe that in 1984, Sam Campanaro and Marty Czamanske had a hard time convincing Kodak management that a picture with 15 babies would be perfect for the Colorama. Campanaro was inspired by his daughter's birthing class reunion photo, and Czamanske was a new dad himself. Anyway, long story short, it was the most popular Colorama image ever, duh, so popular they brought all the kids back twice more at 2.5 and 5 years old. Grand Central then underwent a huge restoration, and all that billboard clutter was swept away, just ahead of Kodak itself, it seems." From the collection of Frederic Gale Ruffner, Jr. the founder of Gale Research, Detroit. .

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