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5.10.02
4.10.02
Clara Gordon Bow, later to become the personification of the Roaring Twenties, was born and brought up in near poverty in Brooklyn, New York, on July 29, 1905. Her family was also beset with violence. Her mother tried to slit Clara's throat when she attempted to enter the film industry.
Hedy Lamarr was frequently quoted as saying, "Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid."
Hedy Lamarr was frequently quoted as saying, "Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid."
2.10.02
{I didn't know this. All these years and I never knew it.}
In 1949, photographer Tom Kelley paid the then unknown model, Norma Jeane Baker $50 to pose nude on a red velvet background. A couple of years later he sold one of the pictures from that shooting to a calendar company, and the next year he sold them a second. In 1953, Hugh Hefner bought the rights to publish one of the calendar shots, "Golden Dreams" and used it as the centerpiece of the first issue of his new men's magazine, Playboy.
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In 1949, photographer Tom Kelley paid the then unknown model, Norma Jeane Baker $50 to pose nude on a red velvet background. A couple of years later he sold one of the pictures from that shooting to a calendar company, and the next year he sold them a second. In 1953, Hugh Hefner bought the rights to publish one of the calendar shots, "Golden Dreams" and used it as the centerpiece of the first issue of his new men's magazine, Playboy.
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101 illustrators Charles Addams and more
Sulamith Wülfing
Winsor McKay
James Montgomery Flagg
Lynd Ward
Ronald Searle
Walt Kelly
Elizabeth Shippen Green
Ivan Bilibin
101 like that
Winsor McKay
James Montgomery Flagg
Lynd Ward
Ronald Searle
Walt Kelly
Elizabeth Shippen Green
Ivan Bilibin
101 like that
Kate Northrop's valiant tingle defends the soul of childhood living, via a so-so link from the neo-curmudgeonly robotwisdom
30.9.02
Bruce Sterling pointed to this at the Whitney Artport, from whence I found this solid piece by Camille Utterback