Taken from Better Homes and Garden’s Barbecue Book, 1956
Saul Leiter - New York, c. 1950s
via Art Blart
Kodachrome of a frozen food case, c. 1950
Location and photographer unknown
via Shorpy
Children can be nasty, don’t you think?
Rudy Burckhardt - A View From Brooklyn, 1954
via Art Blart
The Art Van Damme Quintet - More Cocktail Capers, c. 1951
Artwork by Robert Guidi
via Piet Schreuders
Gordon Parks - Mysticism, Harlem, New York, 1952
via Art Blart
Rhythm and Blues with Howlin’ Wolf, 1957
Eric Fraser - Preliminary design for Robert S de Ropp’s Drugs and the Mind, 1957
An exhibition of Eric Fraser’s work is now on at Chris Beetles Gallery until 11 May 2013
Alan J Bastien’s Printer’s Pie, a 10’ x 5’ typographic mural, 1955
Charles C. Eames’ Solar Toy
This colourful kinetic solar toy was designed in the late 1950s … for ALCOA (Aluminum Company of America). It is Goldberg-esque in its lack of function. It purposely did nothing - Aqua Velvet








