
Two Pairs of Legs · 1928-1929

images that haunt us


A 1929 advertisement for the Shirokiya department store featuring actresses walking on the beach at Kamakura, Japan. | src wikimedia

George W. Gardner :: Models posing at the Camel smoking billboard
designed by Artkraft Strauss, featuring a man holding a cigarette, his mouth producing gargantuan smoke rings,Times Square, NYC, 1964.
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The most iconic sign designed by Artkraft Strauss: the smoke-billowing sign for Camel cigarettes featuring a man holding a cigarette, his mouth producing gargantuan smoke rings. The circles were actually steam pumped from the Con Ed building’s heating system. [Times Square, NYC, ca. 1950]
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Olive Cotton ::
Glasses, circa 1937 / src: artgallery.nsw.gov.au
‘Glasses is a significant work in the oeuvre of Australian photographer Olive Cotton. The photograph is emblematic of Cotton’s enduring artistic preoccupation with exhibiting the beauty and value of everyday objects.’ [quoted from source]
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Ramón Masats :: Eiffel Tower, Paris, 1962. Vintage gelatin silver print on paper. / source: Museo Reina Sofia
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