Phil Beard
Sunday, 20 June 2010

The Gentle Art of Making Guinness

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This vertiginous view of a Guinness dirigible floating over the chalk cliffs and dry-stone walls of Southern England was drawn and painted...
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Tuesday, 15 June 2010

Emperors of the Highways

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These faded figures rescued from the obscurity of a distant postcard past represent the true titleholders of the urban highways. They are th...
Monday, 7 June 2010

Silent Witnesses

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An exhibition entitled Silent Witnesses: Graphic Novels Without Words opened in Lincoln on May 29th. and runs until August 30th. Details ca...
Wednesday, 2 June 2010

Métro Buttes-Chaumont

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Far below the southern perimeter of the Parc des Buttes-Chaumont runs one of the curiosities of the Paris Métro – line 7bis. A short, self-c...
Tuesday, 1 June 2010

Buttes-Chaumont in Postcards

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Today’s offering is a selection of cartes postales accompanied by recently photographed images taken almost a hundred years later. Little h...
Wednesday, 26 May 2010

Leslie Carr

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Leslie Carr was an accomplished illustrator and poster artist active from the 1920s to the 1950s. Transport subjects were his speciality and...
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Friday, 21 May 2010

Vidocq Détective

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Eugène François Vidocq often seems as much a fictional character as Fantômas. A career criminal and master of disguise who crossed over to t...
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