“For me, photography can be dead serious or great fun. Trying to capture the elusive truth with a camera is often frustrating toil. Trying to create an image that does not exist, except in one’s imagination, is often an elating game. I particularly enjoy this game when I play it with Salvador Dali. We were […]
Vintage
American Art Posters 1890-1920
A collection of the Boston Public Library
An amazing collection of vintage American Art Posters 1890-1920 from the Boston Public Library. There are nearly 600 posters in this collection, below is just a sampling. Most are lithographs but there are some linocuts also. You can see echoes of Toulouse-Lautrec and Maxfield Parrish amongst others. Below is an interesting example of different deployments of the same print, […]
Jumping Jacks Cut-Outs
Sorry I can’t remember where I originally came across these but have held on to them for years.
60 beautiful vintage Travel Posters
I recommend clicking on the images for the higher resolution versions. […]
A biopic of music legend Ian Dury is heading to the big screen…
This is a classic reminder of Ian Dury and his brilliance. From Sky News: Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll stars Andy Serkis, the actor best-known for playing Gollum in the Lord Of The Rings trilogy. He told Sky News he is thrilled with the reception so far. “The family came and watched the […]
Some Vintage Ian Dury for a Friday
Vintage early track from from the one of a kind Ian Dury and The Blockheads on the Dutch TV Show “TopPop” with “Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll” from 1977
Song of the Day — ‘The Electrician’ by The Walker Brothers (1978)
About The Walker Brothers (From Wiki): The Walker Brothers were an American 1960s and 1970s pop group, comprising Scott Engel, John Maus, and Gary Leeds. They had a number of top ten albums and singles in the mid-1960s, including number 1 chart hits “Make It Easy on Yourself” and “The Sun Ain’t Gonna Shine (Anymore)“. […]
Adviews — digital archive of vintage television commercials
AdViews is a digital archive of thousands of vintage television commercials dating from the 1950s to the 1980s. These commercials were created or collected by the ad agency Benton & Bowles or its successor, D’Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles (DMB&B). Founded in 1929, Benton & Bowles was a New York advertising agency that merged with […]
Jazz artist portraits by William P. Gottlieb, circa 1938 to 1948.
Portrait of Slam Stewart, Three Deuces(?), New York, N.Y., ca. Sept. 1946 Click images for larger. Portrait of Django Reinhardt, Aquarium, New York, N.Y., ca. Nov. 1946 Portrait of Kaiser Marshall, Art Hodes, Sandy Williams, Cecil (Xavier) Scott, and Henry (Clay) Goodwin, Times Square, New York, N.Y., ca. July 1947 Portrait of Billie Holiday, Downbeat(?), […]
