Thursday, 26 November 2009
Douglass Crockwell’s Double Life
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On the day that America celebrates Thanksgiving we give our thanks for Douglass Crockwell (1904-1968), one of the most singular characters...
Wednesday, 25 November 2009
Paris de Nuit
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In 1933 Brassaï published one of the greatest of all photo-books with the title Paris de Nuit . These Parisian postcards from a series publi...
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Wednesday, 18 November 2009
Passage du Caire
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The Passage du Caire has the distinction of being the longest passage in Paris and dates from 1798. In the hierarchy of these things, if t...
Monday, 16 November 2009
The Oxo Factor
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The Oxo stock cube has been around for more than a century. Over the years this modest product has been advertised with great persistence; ...
Saturday, 14 November 2009
Crespi d’Adda – factory village
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The Italian association with cotton goes back to the 12th. century when the Venetians began importing from Asia. The techniques of mass pro...
Friday, 13 November 2009
American Streamline Lite
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Four examples of magazine advertising from Alcoa Aluminum in the pages of Fortune in the 1930s. Fortune was printed on heavyweight coat...
Tuesday, 10 November 2009
Distillers of Venom
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France in the inter-war years had more than its share of vociferous extremists of the right fanatically dedicated to the destruction of the ...
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