#worldwar ii

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

A GOODBYE TO SPRING FASHIONS... HERE COMES THE SUMMER.

PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on the "VOGUE" magazine cover of March 15, 1945, featuring a blurred model behind a frosted glass panel emblazoned with a red cross, photographed by Erwin Blumenfeld and art-directed by Alexander Liberman. 📸: Erwin Blumenfeld, via Condé Nast.

Resolution at 1200x1607 & 740x936.

"It is “scary and sad to think that no mainstream fashion title would now publish a cover this bold,” our critic says."

-- THE NEW YORK TIMES, "The Vanished Glamour of Midcentury Print Media," by Jason Farago, published April 29, 2021

Sources: https://nz.pinterest.com/pin/392024342536165968 & The New York Times.

[lonestarbattleship]

USS NORTH CAROLINA (BB-55) underway.

Note: she is painted in Camouflage Measure 32 Design 18D.

Photographed from USS INTREPID (CV-11), sometime between January and February 1944.

NARA: BuAer 227112

[florianthein]

Spitzbunker von Florian Thein Über Flickr: 2017, Waldstadt, Wünsdorf, Yashica T5, dm Paradies 400

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

"...BLUMENFELD REINTERPRETS THESE HUMANITARIAN SIGNS JUST AS HE BLURS THOSE OF FASHION."

PIC(S) INFO: Erwin Blumenfeld (American-German, 1897-1969). Spotlight on a photo art piece titled "Do your part for the Red Cross" ["Soutenez la Croix-Rouge"], c. 1945. Variant of a cover photograph of Vogue, “Do your part for the Red Cross”, New York, March 15th, 1945. Collection Henry Blumenfeld. © The Estate of Erwin Blumenfeld.

PICS #2 & 3: The chosen image to be published for the cover of "VOGUE," and the cover page itself (March 1945).

OVERVIEW: "A model, a red cross: fashion and current affairs superimposed. The background to this humanitarian appeal is the liberation of the concentration camps and the aid brought to prisoners of war. Blumenfeld reinterprets these humanitarian signs just as he blurs those of fashion."

-- ART BLART (Art & Cultural Memory Archive)

Resolution from largest to smallest: 1772x2215, 1200x1607, & 960x1200.

Sources: https://artblart.com/tag/erwin-blumenfeld-minotaur, The Eye of Photography, & The New York Times.

[desertrat1]

Christmas on the line.

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The Song of the Jade Lily by Kirsty Manning

The Song of the Jade Lily by Kirsty Manning

The Song of the Jade Lily by Kirsty Manning

This is definitely a “go run right out and get this book now”! This book made my heart break. The story is gorgeous, and painful, and it felt so real. It’s about friendship and love, and fighting for all that you love – and living through things that can either make you or break you. I could not put it down, and it definitely got me out of my…

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The Chilbury Ladies’ Choir by Jennifer Ryan

I just posted my review for “The Chilbury Ladies Choir”. I really enjoyed this charming book.

The Chilbury Ladies’ Choir by Jennifer Ryan Published by Crown Publishing Group

I love when a book of fiction takes something from fact and teaches me something that I didn’t know. Of course, throughout history people have kept journals and correspondence – that’s how we know of things that happened in our past, without the benefit of TV and social media. What I didn’t know was that the British…

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The Alice Network by Kate Quinn

The Alice Network by Kate Quinn

The Alice Network by Kate Quinn Published by Thorndike Press

And once again, I chose a book that moves through time. I think I have a type.

We start out in 1947. World War II is over, but not by much in Europe, which is where we meet Charlotte (Charlie) St. Clair. Charlie is a young American college student, who is in London with her mother to take care of her “little problem”. You see, Charlie…

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