entries Tagged as [photography]
Clairol True-To-Light VII
Control panel from my mother’s Clairol ‘True-To-Light’ makeup mirror.
Still in daily use after all these years. Here’s the original, original commercial.
Dylan
‘Taken by Douglas R.Gilbert as Dylan was typing the liner notes for his fourth album, Another Side of Bob Dylan, in his writing studio above the Café Espresso on Tinker Street, Woodstock, New York, in August 1964.’
Last month, Bob Dylan turned 70.
Bob Dylan: I Don’t Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Have Met) (Live)
Photo found via oz.Typewriter
Brodsky
‘With a combination of live-action and animation, Khrzhanovskiy weaves a magical portrait of Brodsky and his milieu from post-war Leningrad to an imaginary visit to the new St. Petersburg’
Above, trailer for Andrey Khrzhanovskiy’s A Room and a Half – based on the life of poet Joseph Brodsky (1940-96).
Joseph Brodsky, baby Hermes typewriter
Fabert
‘I found the Candidates of Politburo in the loft of an old, hidden soviet theatre near my hometown Brandenburg. The colored b/w pictures on wooden boards are exposed to sun and rain because the roof is already gone. Some are perforated by bullets.’
The photography of Fritz Fabert.
Self portrait, Fritz Fabert
Chaubin, CCCP
‘The beauty of Soviet brutalism’
Frédéric Chaubin’s photographs of 90 oddly-designed buildings constructed in the final decades of the Soviet Union.
And thru Taschen, available in handy book form.
Found via RebeccaWho
Daily life in North Korea
‘British photographer Charlie Crane traveled to Pyongyang, the capital city and obtained permission to photograph daily life in North Korea.’
More here.
Found via H&FJ
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Jozsef Pecsi: Photo and Advertising
Color: A Natural History of the Palette
Collage: Assembling Contemporary Art
Modern Dog: 20 Years of Poster Art
Gaberbocchus Press: An Experiment in Publishing, 1948-1979
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