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This Week in Ephemera
This is a score! The entire 1916 year of McCall’s magazine and in beautiful condition, especially considering these twelve issues are over a hundred years old.
A Dumb Yet Strangely Awesome Way to Die
…and one thing to not make.
“Does this transmitter make my ass look big?”
The inspiration for the 1970s children’s classic, “The Little Penguin Who Hated Science”.
Me not realizing when a girl is flirting with me.
McCall’s was gorgeous in 1946.
I bet Les Nessman subscribes.
Merry Holidays and Happy Christmas, y’all!
Collier’s magazine — December 13, 1952
Image: Scan of one of my latest vintage mag acquisitions. Cover illustration by C. William Randall.
Strike a pose.
Vogue magazine, April 1, 1950, and it’s mine!
Sometimes the cover of vintage magazine catches my eye more than others and I end up digging around to learn more about it. This was one of those times, especially since this particular Vogue magazine from April 1, 1950, wasn’t listed in the lot I won on eBay and received a few weeks ago. I’m not complaining, as another copy of this issue recently sold on eBay for $249.
The cover photo of “Queen of Fashion Inc.” Jean Patchett is by Irving Penn and was the first black and white Vogue cover since they started using color in 1909. The black lipstick Patchett wore was MacGyver’d from mascara to maximize the contrast. Penn was rather prolific and prodigious for Vogue, shooting 165 covers between 1943 and 2009.
Additional trivia: A 17”x15” signed print of this Irving Penn photograph sold for $481,000 at a 2008 Christie’s auction.
Damn, I have good and expensive taste!
Would you like to know more?
In Vogue: From Penn to Leibovitz, Seven New Exhibitions Spotlight Our Photographers and Their Work
As “Irving Penn: The Centennial” Opens at the Met, We Consider the Photographer’s Vogue Career
Christie’s — Photographs — 11 April 2008, New York — Lot 343