NERF OPTIQUE

German postcard by Krüger, nr. 902/196. Photo: Gérard Decaux.

The Halsman family. Left to right: Jane, Yvonne, Philippe and Irène, 1950  [source]

Philippe Halsman. Walter Gropius  [source]

beinecke rare book & manuscript library, yale @ metalocus

sales leaflet for the isokon long chair by marcel breuer @  taguealibrary

oaaa archives, “put your ad here”, 1940s @ duke

oaaa archives, “put your ad here”, 1940s @ duke

Before and After, The Young Savages (1961).

Taken from The Soviet Commodity Dictionary, 1956-61

Takashi Yasumura, from the series ‘Nature Tracing’, 2003

Chishû Ryû

Japanese Advertising: Nissan Laundry Soap. Hiroshi Ohchi. 1954

Northern Ireland, 1970s. Photo by Akihiko Okamura.

Paul Delvaux 

The Floor Scrapers was Caillebotte’s first painting to be exhibited, at an Impressionist exhibition in 1875. At the time, the painting, with its dramatic perspective and ocher tones, was dismissed as vulgar. Today, it is considered a major work of the time.

1897