Pinup Life in the Kitchen
Gil Elvgren “Confidentially This Sticks”
by Paul Cernia
by Pete Hawley
Earl Moran
Al Moore
1950s advertising
1950s Kraft Food ad
Modern Wife 1940s
and of course Dita von Tease
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a place to unload
victorian “threesomes” and 1920s fashion ads
Previous post made me look for more 1920s ads with groups of two men and one woman I found a couple of them. I suppose such groupings are a carryover from Victorian times when a woman was supposed to have several suitors in waiting. So in addition to 1920s, I include here one ad from La Belle Epoque.
Story of red scarf
An image from the New York Public Library of 1920s ad, depicts a girl and two men hanging out on the beach. Red scarf here is “oh-so-fashionable” accessory added to create contrast with girl’s blue swimsuit. But the USSR, red scarf was a bit more than a cute fashion statement -it was always inseparable from the revolutionary rhetoric..red being a communist flag, a flag that was said to be stained with blood of comrades fallen in the struggle for freedom. So in the oeuvre of Soviet photography red scarf was de rigueur element, that was to emphasize communist women workers.
photo by Dmitry Baltermants 1971
photo by Boris Kaufmann, Soviet Moldavia 1966
some Russian photography via Houston Fotofest
I wish I could see “Contemporary Russian photography show” in Houston
but here are a few good photos i found looking through the pages of auction listings
Sergey Maximishin has lots of great photos on his site…I liked the story of Shoyna, a Russian fishing village devastated by environmental consequences of overfishing.
Next is Tatyana Plotnikova there are lot of good images on her site as well; my picks are from the series “Bathers” and “North Corrida.”
Also Margo Ovcharenko’s series Hermitage
And the last one i a vintage image from 1979 called “Last Ring of the School Bell, Ulyanovsk” by Shechekoldin
Van Arno’s painting that made me laugh
This is from Van Arno’s show “The Boogie Disease” and this piece is called Tongue For Turnips On Tobacco Road
i loved this one as well
titled Thank The Lord For The Night Time
good to know T.H. Benton style of painting lives on in a constantly evolving form..here’s a couple from Benton
Twist
“Poker Night” based on a movie Streetcar Named Desire
deja vu
just saw Mad Men poster…very nicely done indeed. But it reminded me of something …
here’s my self portrait from 2007
which was done in response to Aaron Hawks series of self portraits but in particular to this one below
Mister Hawks has quite a few self-portraits in the same vein here’s one more
life is strange sometimes…
note on photobooks
Thanks to Alec Soth best books list
I found a couple interesting books:
Watabe Yukichi “Criminal Investigations” published by Editions Xavier Barral EXB
and another book by the same publisher, a work of American photographer Jane Evelyn Atwood “Rue Des Lombards” a series about prostitution
and one more book, so i don’t forget, “Surrounded by No one” is by Margaret M de Lange
few more finds from NYPL image collections
Wisner Sisters
Maria Ley
Virginia Mayo
Chilli Williams
Rita Hayworth Day
Lady from Shanghai, 1946 film by Orson Welles
the post started with image from “Lady from Shanghai” its nice to finish with one from the same film
cigarette case beauties from the 20s
Came across a whole set of cigarette box inserts with photos of beauties from 1920s. Some of them are actresses from New York stage or Hollywood studio stars..
Thank you NYPL
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- 2012-03-23
- Pinup Life in the Kitchen
- 2012-03-21
- victorian “threesomes” and 1920s fashion ads
- 2012-03-18
- Story of red scarf
- 2012-03-09
- some Russian photography via Houston Fotofest
- 2012-03-01
- Van Arno’s painting that made me laugh
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