First Class
America's Marvelous Midcentury Stamps
Seiten
2022
Schiffer Publishing Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-7643-6471-6 (ISBN)
Schiffer Publishing Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-7643-6471-6 (ISBN)
A rare, magnified look at America's best-designed stamps from the mid-20th century!
A rare, magnified look at America's best-designed stamps from the mid-20th century
Every picture tells a story—even one on a postage stamp.
Presented enormously enlarged, the 128 stamps in this book chronicle a stylish era of design: mid-20th-century America. Spanning the late 1950s to the early 1970s, these mini-masterpieces were created when the US post office started to use lavish color on its stamps, and hire the best midcentury talents to design them.
That talent roster includes Japanese American children’s book illustrator Gyo Fujikawa, barrier-busting Black graphic artist Georg Olden, Bauhaus master Herbert Bayer, pop artist Robert Indiana, sultan of psychedelia Peter Max, and others. This book divulges the stories behind their tiny pieces of art.
Photographed at five, ten, and even fifteen times their actual size, each stamp is presented with a morsel of fun info that will broadly appeal to stamp collectors, history and nostalgia buffs, midcentury design fans, and everyone who likes to geek out on magnified views of teeny images.
A rare, magnified look at America's best-designed stamps from the mid-20th century
Every picture tells a story—even one on a postage stamp.
Presented enormously enlarged, the 128 stamps in this book chronicle a stylish era of design: mid-20th-century America. Spanning the late 1950s to the early 1970s, these mini-masterpieces were created when the US post office started to use lavish color on its stamps, and hire the best midcentury talents to design them.
That talent roster includes Japanese American children’s book illustrator Gyo Fujikawa, barrier-busting Black graphic artist Georg Olden, Bauhaus master Herbert Bayer, pop artist Robert Indiana, sultan of psychedelia Peter Max, and others. This book divulges the stories behind their tiny pieces of art.
Photographed at five, ten, and even fifteen times their actual size, each stamp is presented with a morsel of fun info that will broadly appeal to stamp collectors, history and nostalgia buffs, midcentury design fans, and everyone who likes to geek out on magnified views of teeny images.
David Cobb Craig is a former reporter and writer at Life and People and now works at Food Network Magazine. He lives on Manhattan’s Upper West Side and sends out a lot of cards and letters using old stamps. For over three decades, veteran still-life photographer David Hamsley has been using a variety of inventive techniques to create dynamic images. His work has appeared in countless magazines and advertisements. Finding beauty in small, often overlooked things is a particular passion.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 12.12.2022 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 98 color images |
| Verlagsort | Atglen |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 216 x 279 mm |
| Gewicht | 1134 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Design / Innenarchitektur / Mode |
| Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile | |
| Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Sammeln / Sammlerkataloge | |
| Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Grafik / Design | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-7643-6471-5 / 0764364715 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-7643-6471-6 / 9780764364716 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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