Tag Archives: Modernism

13 Lady Photogs on One Hot Trip

Well, just as the light was waning over West Texas last evening, the Marfa Girls were returning safely home from their reckless adventures in the sleepy, brushy, desert town of the same name. If you are not familiar with Marfa, it’s an amazing (I am told) once nearly “ghost town” turned artist colony, thanks to [...]

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Mad for Mod

Quickly, form a single line and move toward Veerle Pieters amazing street-level foto-document of Interieur 08 – which, for those of us on this side of the Atlantic, might otherwise be missed. I am really rather smitten (as is Veerle) with these quixiotic 1963 Alexander Girard dolls. Pieters points out that Girard was inspired to [...]

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Le porte-pique nique

When I lived in Brooklyn, I was forever seeing empty suitcases. Many were stunningly well-preserved 1960’s era Samsonites. With their sturdy functionality and mod high style, they were pretty well begging for me to bring them home to our 675 square foot apartment with no closets (that’s NO closets – not small, or few closets [...]

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