9 Vintage Celebrity Selfies With Billboards
Lost of great Hitchcock Posters here.
Lost of great Hitchcock Posters here.
Photographer David McCabe remembers the artists’ first meeting: I went with Andy to see Dalí at the St. Regis Hotel. Dalí used to paint his suite at the St. Regis. He was working on two enormous paintings at the time. He greeted us at the door, ordered up all […]
The first thing that struck me when I saw these car ads for Rauch & Lang was how Disney-like the lovely illustrations were. As it turns out I might not have been far off!
This a completely random set of creepy doll pictures that I’ve been collecting for a while.
Richard Felton Outcault created Hogan’s Alley, considered to be the first commercially successful newspaper comic strip. As its main character it featured Mickey Dugan, AKA The Yellow Kid. In addition to being funny, the comic strip gives us a unique look into the lives of the New York working class […]
The Czech artist Alfons Mucha is synonymous with the Art Nouveau movement. After being launched to fame in Paris creating a poster for Gismonda, a play starring actress Sarah Bernhardt, Mucha was flooded with commissions. One of these was The Seasons, a set of four painted decorative panels which became his most popular […]
Kar-mi swallows a loaded gun barrel : and shoots a cracker from a man’s head.Sourced from Digital Commonwealth of Massachusetts who have an amazing collection and mission. There isn’t a lot of information on the individual prints, what you see is what you get. By my reckoning they date from between […]
An unusual series of Russian and Ukrainian Posters 1917-1921 “In Red Automobile to the Kingdom of Communism” Compared to the more colorful, conventional styled poster art of the Revolutionary period in Russia, this series seems quite primitive, naive. Perhaps it was to separate them from the Bourgeoisie past, I don’t know, […]
A collection of titillating paperback covers. Australian writer Alan G. Yates wrote about 150 crime stories under the pseudonym of Carter Brown. The sales were in the millions of copies, no doubt in part to the wonderful pin-up style cover illustrations by Robert McGinnis. Some of the titles and plot […]
Happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day America To all, black, red, white and blue. Martin Luther King Jr. Day is a federal holiday in the States that celebrates the Civil Rights activists birthday of January 15th. Some of the current batch of world leaders could benefit by remembering him or […]