Photographs, when assumed as the objective documents of our past, often repudiate the veneration our memories bestow on that same history. Guy Stricherz' assemblage of prints - culled from individual Kodachrome archives throughout the country - shows that this disparity exists only when you are looking at the wrong photographs. The images in this book are Americans and America as they want to be seen, as they want to be remembered. Acting more as a collaborator than an impresario, Stricherz' finessed selection describes a universal American narrative. The printing - a dye-transfer technique of which Stricherz is one of the few remaining adepts - enriches the transient and singular veracity of the images. Stricherz has built these mementos into monuments.