Discovery of the Statue of Antinous at Delphi in 1894
This post was originally published on this siteOn July 1, 1893, at the excavation of Delphi near the Temple of Apollo, archaeologists uncovered a near-perfectly […]
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Beautiful Illustrated Vintage Travel Posters in the 1930s
This post was originally published on this site Take a look at these 25 beautiful vintage travel posters of the ‘30s: America. Cairo. Chicago World’s […]
Beautiful Illustrated Travel Posters of the London North Eastern Railway in the 1930s
This post was originally published on this siteTake a look at 30 beautiful vintage illustrated posters, produced for the London North Eastern Railway to promote […]
Exhibition Catalogue for Levi Straus Denim Art Contest Held in 1973
This post was originally published on this siteThe early 1970s were all about decorating your favorite jeans and denim jackets, to make these pieces truly […]
Amazing Mid-20th Century Illustrations by Walter Molino
This post was originally published on this siteThese illustrations of people in various states of peril were painted by the extremely prolific Italian artist Walter […]
18 Gorgeous Vintage Public Health Posters From the 1930s and 1940s
This post was originally published on this siteFrom 1936–1943 the Federal Art Project under the Works Progress Administration (WPA) commissioned over 200,000 works from American […]
Will We Move Around the Town Like This?
This post was originally published on this site (Illustration by Walter Molino, 1962) Translation from Italian: “Will we move around the town like this? Here’s […]
6 Feet Covers: Duo Artists Re-Designed Iconic Album Covers to Promote Social Distancing
This post was originally published on this siteL.A. artists Paco Conde and Beto Fernandez have redesigned a series of album covers to raise awareness about […]
Death, Blood, and Mayhem: A Collection of 48 Scary Vintage Dutch Workplace Safety Posters
This post was originally published on this siteThese posters, which represent over 50 years of finger-wagging, are mostly terrifying, but each is also pretty gorgeous […]
A Collection of 20 Vintage Soviet Health Propaganda Posters
This post was originally published on this siteThe USSR really cared about its citizens – well at least about their health – because if they […]
Keep Calm and Wash Your Hands: Vintage Handwashing Propaganda Posters Between the 1920s and 1940s
This post was originally published on this siteHandwashing can help prevent illness. It involves five simple and effective steps (Wet, Lather, Scrub, Rinse, Dry) you […]
Stunning Fashion Photography by Guy Bourdin in the 1970s
This post was originally published on this siteBorn 1928 in Paris, French artist and fashion photographer Guy Bourdin was known for his provocative images. From […]
14 Hilarious Christian DIY Album Covers in the 1960s and 1970s
This post was originally published on this siteThe Christian record market of the 1960s and ’70s was an odd phenomenon – to say the least. […]
One of the Greatest Painters of the Dutch Golden Age: 23 Beautiful Paintings by Johannes Vermeer in the Mid-17th Century
This post was originally published on this siteJohannes Vermeer (1632-1675) was a Dutch Baroque Period painter who specialized in domestic interior scenes of middle class […]
A Collection of 40 Bad Christian Album Covers With Unfortunate Titles
This post was originally published on this siteWhat were they thinking? Some of these seem a tad suggestive, sexual, rapey. Some are just odd, all […]
Jan. 22, 1981: John Lennon and Yoko Ono Appeared on Rolling Stone’s Cover – The Story Behind the Most Iconic Photograph in Rock ‘n’ Roll History
This post was originally published on this siteThe musician John Lennon and the performance artist Yoko Ono married in 1969. It was one of the […]
David Bowie Photographed by Terry O’Neill for ‘Diamond Dogs’ Album Cover, 1974
This post was originally published on this siteDavid Bowie appears as half-man, half-dog character Halloween Jack, leader of the Diamond Dogs gang. Photographer Terry O’Neill […]
Rare Photos of The Beatles Painting “Images of a Woman,” the Only Known Painting by All Four Members in Tokyo, 1966
This post was originally published on this siteImages of a Woman, also known as The Tokyo Painting is one of those rare Beatles memorabilia pieces […]
You Put Someone Horns on Its Head
This post was originally published on this siteThis is a German figure of speech. “Jemandem Hörner aufsetzten” – You put someone horns on its head. […]
Georgia O’Keeffe’s Hands by Alfred Stieglitz
This post was originally published on this siteAlfred Stieglitz campaigned throughout the first half of the twentieth century to legitimize photography and modern art. He […]
X-Rated Disco: Get Up to Barbara Markay’s Disco Album Covers
This post was originally published on this siteBorn and raised on Long Island, New York, Barbara Markay was something of a classical music prodigy, starting […]
Cool Polaroid Shots of Ric Ocasek Taken by Andy Warhol in 1980
This post was originally published on this siteRic Ocasek, the former lead singer of the iconic new wave band The Cars, has been found dead […]
1988 Ford Fiesta Transformed Into Real-Life Transformer
This post was originally published on this siteWhen UK-based artist Hetain Patel was gifted a 1988 Ford Fiesta as his first car when he turned […]
Stunning Photos of Self Portraits by Tseng Kwong Chi in the Late 1970s and ‘80s
This post was originally published on this siteBorn 1950, Hong Kong-born American photographer Tseng Kwong Chi was active in the East Village art scene in […]
Le Fox-Terrier Au Pont des Arts by Robert Doisneau, 1953
This post was originally published on this site“Nowadays people’s visual imagination is so much more sophisticated, so much more developed, particularly in young people, that […]