One year on from its beginnings, this gallery of plates from a 1960s curtain catalogue, produced by the marvellously-named Rufflette … More
Category: Photography
Apr 29 2012: Eighteen Plates from The Art of Macrame: Modern Design in Knotting by Joan Fisher (Hamlyn, 1972)
Despite both pre-dating and surviving the 1970s, the art of macrame is nevertheless almost entirely identified with the post-hippie decade … More
Apr 28 2012: Monochrome Photograph of an Unidentified Yugoslav Sculptor with Bust of Tito and Child (c.1970s)
As a kind of brief aside to yesterday’s catalogue of monuments and sculptures from the former Yugoslavia, this small monochrome … More
Apr 27 2012: Twenty-One Modernist Monuments, Buildings and Memorials from a Guide to the former Yugoslavia (Yugoslaviapublic Beograd, 1980)
The volume that these photographs of futuristic monuments, public sculptures and buildings were selected from is a mammoth guide to … More
Apr 26 2012: Thirty-One Monochrome Photographs from The Boys’ Book of Radio, Television and Radar (Burke Publishing, 1957)
The Boys’ Book of Radio, Television and Radar was published in 1957 as an accessible schools-level guide to the latest … More
Apr 25 2012: The Modernist Christ (Geraint Evans Sings in Llandaff Cathedral, Delyse Records, 1962)
I suppose this record sleeve, containing a 1962 recording of Welsh opera singer Geraint Evans performing in the imposing setting … More
Apr 23 2012: A Postcard from Warsaw to The Secretaries of Sherwood Road (1977)
Mailed in the summer of 1977 and inscribed “to my lovely secretaries from sunny Warsaw”, there’s a wonderful inversion in … More
Apr 21 2012: Twenty-Nine Monochrome Photographs from a Souvenir Volume Documenting Socialist Czechoslovakia (CSSR, c.1957)
From the same 1957 publication as yesterday’s gallery of colour images, these monochrome plates show life in the then relatively … More
Apr 20 2012: Fifteen Colour Photographs from a Souvenir Volume Documenting Socialist Czechoslovakia (CSSR, c.1957)
A girl releases a dove in the name of ‘joy and beauty’. Clean, new buildings rise in historic cities. Athletes … More
Apr 18 2012: The “Mr Universe” Magazine Giant Body Beautiful Issue Featuring Clarence Ross (1950s)
American masculinity has always been a curious creature, with its more regressive manifestations generally among the nation’s most blatantly homoerotic … More