2012-03-21
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Mirella Petteni by F.C. Gundlach, at iainclaridge.co.uk.
A couple of years ago I saw an exhibition of Gundlach’s work at the Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin. I’m not usually a huge fan of fashion photography, but I think Gundlach deserves to be well (better?) known. His black and white work, in particular, hits all the right spots for me.
This photograph is from 1963, and it’s not the most practical space suit in the world, but I like the angle and the parachute, so here it is.
2010-09-14
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Cold War Wind Patterns, 1963 from The Infomercantile:
What does this map show? It relies on the wind patterns of an average spring day, in that particular decade. That decade was the 1960s, and about the biggest worry to be carried on those spring winds: fallout. This map projects fallout, if an “enemy” were to drop 3,000 megatons on various military, industrial, and civilian targets at the same time, both ground detonations and air bursts. From the Saturday Evening Post, 23 March 1963.
