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These vintage photos show the ‘Peculiar Paradise’ of Florida in the early 1980s

While working for National Geographic Magazine, photographer Nathan Benn returned to his home state of Florida in 1981, an era that saw rapid construction in Orlando’s theme parks, a bloody drug war in Miami and waves of immigration from the Caribbean. In A Peculiar Paradise: Florida Photographs, Benn’s latest from powerHouse Books, the photographer recounts this impactful time period […]

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