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27 février 2012

Photography

Steve Pippin

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Tags: photography, experimentation

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24 février 2012

Kodak: the end of an era...

Strange to recall, Kodak was the Google of its day. Founded in 1880, it was known for its pioneering technology and innovative marketing. “You press the button, we do the rest,” was its slogan in 1888. By 1976 Kodak accounted for 90% of film and 85% of...

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Tags: photography, analog, digital

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17 février 2012

Norman Parkinson versus Van Dongen

Norman Parkinson, A very British Glamour by Louise Baring "Instead of posing aloof creatures with mask-like faces in fanciful settings, Parkinson took women out into natural light, making them move with informal freedom and exuberance - a far cry from...

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Tags: painter, photographer, portraits

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17 février 2012

Leon Vidal

Portrait of a Lady 1879, photochrome 129 x 89 mm - made with twelve superimposed colour printings. Leon Vidal (1834-1906) developped the photochrome printing process in the 1870s as a method of accurately colouring photographs for quantity reproduction....

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Tags: books, photography

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6 février 2012

A conversation with Bob Stein from The Institute for the Future of the Book, By Sarah Gottlieb

(extracts from The Form of the Book Book) By created blogs related to books, Bob Stein and is team creates a conversation between the writer and the reader. "Reading and writing have always been social experiences but when frozen into print these relations...

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Tags: book design, short essays

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6 février 2012

Book design research

Le Corbusier as Book Designer: Semi-Modernity a la francaise by Catherine de Smet Le Corbusier -Charles-Edouard Jeanneret- produced thirty-five books which he authored, laid out, chose the format and the paper. Le Corbuser and Amedee Ozenfant founded...

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Tags: books, Le Corbusier, graphic designer

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