Category Archives: context

museum piece

Posted on September 21, 2012 | 6 comments

Piece: Lysandra cormion. A butterfly collected and identified by Vladimir Nabokov.

Where: American Museum of Natural History which received over 500 other specimens of Lepidoptera from Nabokov. New York, NY.

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on your sleeve

Posted on September 20, 2012 | 2 comments

Wedding Album. John Lennon and Yoko Ono. 1969.

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Posted in apple records, context, cute couple alert, music, years after the event

advertising

Posted on September 19, 2012 | Leave a comment

1971.

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the decorative sex

Posted on September 18, 2012 | Leave a comment

Olive Thomas, poisoned after drinking Jack Pickford‘s syphilis medication. What a way to go.

Thomas by Vargas. 1920.

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avanti!

Posted on September 16, 2012 | Leave a comment

Jack Lemmon and Juliet Mills in Avanti! Billy Wilder. 1972.

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garbo and chaney

Posted on September 15, 2012 | Leave a comment

Mauritz Stiller (left) introduces Greta Garbo to Lon Chaney (wearing his make up for The Road to Mandalay).1926.

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titles

Posted on September 14, 2012 | Leave a comment

Fritz Lang. 1931.

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pen to paper

Posted on September 12, 2012 | Leave a comment

Playboy. November 1976.

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Posted in cinema, context, mail bag, old magazines

for your home movies

Posted on September 11, 2012 | 1 comment

The Cine-Ansco and the Agfa Ansco.

Pamphlets for home movie equipment. 1920s.

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Posted in advertising, cinema, context, that pile of stuff from the 20s

bad timing

Posted on September 10, 2012 | Leave a comment

Art Garfunkel in Bad Timing. Nicolas Roeg. 1980.

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