Friday, June 30, 2006

Hugo Pratt

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Thursday, June 29, 2006

Phil Hale







Phil Hale is a genius.
This pictures are from "Goad, the many moods of Phil Hale", published by Donald M. Grant, publisher, Inc.
The copyright of these works belong to their rightful owners

Wednesday, June 28, 2006

"Punch" November 1933

Thomas Derrick

Illingworth

Illingworth

G.L.Stampa

Thomas Derrick

Tuesday, June 27, 2006

Marshall Arisman





Sound and fury signifying a lot.

Monday, June 26, 2006

Milton Glaser






Wonderful Milton Glaser

Saturday, June 24, 2006

Robert Osborn






Robert Osborn, USA.1904-1994, was an extraordinary and dynamically expressive line artist. A predecesor of our much admired and respected antipodean pencil master Elliot Cowan

Friday, June 23, 2006

Bridges

Norman Rockwell, Paris 1932


Bernard Buffet, Paris 1960


Edward Hopper, Paris 1909

Thursday, June 22, 2006

Colour Photography

Reputedly this is the 1st colour photograph. A Scottish ribbon, photographed by James Clerk Maxwell in 1861 in three separate lantern slides.


A Photochromoscope by Frederick E. Ives from 1892.


Another Photochromoscope by Ives, from 1897

Wednesday, June 21, 2006

Autochromes






The Lumiere Brothers not only invented the "Kinematograph" but they also invented the "Autochrome", a wonderful system to record colour images on a glass plate.
They had an exquisite eye for photographic aesthetics. These Proustian photographs were taken by them between 1906 and 1910.

Tuesday, June 20, 2006

Japanese Graphics 20's and 30's





Monday, June 19, 2006

Willis O'Brien


Ray Harryhausen presented this picture of Mighty Joe Young by Willis O'Brian (USA 1886-1962) in last Saturday's edition of the Guardian. Really beautiful and evocative.

Saturday, June 17, 2006

Kathe Kollwitz






Rare colour work by Kathe Kollwitz (Germany, 1867-1945)