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This South African plant is drawn so it is both stylized and realistic. Being in an article for the Natural History magazine, this image served the dual purpose of being an advertisement and being informative. The image is composed of only four colors which gives the image an aesthetic similar to to advertisements. While the…

 Our Next War, Vol. XXXII, 1898, LIFE. Political cartoons have been used across centuries in order to push satirical parodies and political views of magazines. More often than not, these political cartoons rely on archetypal devices in order to make one side of the argument appear a certain way over the other. This is specifically…

Featured in January-June 1955 edition of National Geographic Magazine, “Let’s Talk Picnic!” Pupils Pair Off to Practice Words, taken by Willard R. Culver, depicts a speech exercise at the Clarke School For The Deaf. Founded in 1867 in Northampton, Massachusetts, the Clarke School is an institute that offers residential educational services for hard of hearing…

Frank Coyle Found in the archives of the Burke Library, the selected piece of visual media is a Convair advertisement from Time Magazine in 1958. The advertisement contained in the January edition, entitled Masterpiece of Design, provides an image of an aircraft in front of an especially futuristic airport considering the time it was released. Through…

Sandy Thai The Edge of Peace, 1968, LIFE. Larry Burrows’s “The Edge of Peace” centers around a young Vietnamese girl named Tron and her family’s evacuation to the village of Adien as tensions between Americans, South Vietnamese, and the Viet Cong increased. Tragedy strikes when Tron and her friends venture into a ‘free-fire zone,’ resulting…

By: Emilia Chamorro Different types of mediums can be used and combined to create a sense of immersion. This outcome can be seen in a photograph taken by Allan Grant for LIFE on the issue of November 1960, A Flintstones recording session at Hanna-Barber studios, 1960 (Syken, Grant 58-59). Grant was a photographer for LIFE…

Seagoing Salesmen Offer Embroideries Excursionists shout their bids David S. Boyer Tucked within the populated pages of a 1959 National Geographic Magazine, we are met with the cool tones of David Boyer’s “Seagoing Salesmen Offer Embroideries”. Suddenly we are immersed in a scene where bodies engage in a complex interplay of visual and material transactions.…

Throughout the 1950s and into the 1970s, an idealized domestic realm was projected into the homes of many middle-class Americans through television and print advertisements. These advertisements often sought to regulate the interior aesthetic of American households by portraying exaggerated imagery of joyful white families amidst generic symbols of the middle class. Advertisers leveraged these…

https://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2011/09/sept11.html ‘The Thousand Yard Stare,’ an emotional shot by Peter Turnley, is a monument to the emotional toll and resilience experienced in the aftermath of the 9/11 tragedy. This image captures a New York City firefighter’s grim expression, illustrating the devastating impact of the horrific events on the first responders who courageously faced the catastrophe.…