Showing posts with label vintage photo. Show all posts
Showing posts with label vintage photo. Show all posts

photo du jour

I'm going to try and post a different picture every day, or every couple of days, from now on. I might give some information about the photo but mostly I'm just here to share and provide amazingly insightful commentary. Today's pick is:



Why? Because it's clearly insane. Why is this lusty-looking huddled figure standing in a yellow purgatory being stalked by a possibly animatronic Persian feline? What is the meaning of this bizarre portrait? What, if anything, could these various details symbolize? I have a feeling that there is absolutely no interpretation that could satisfy my curiosity. I mean, they were trying to sell clothes with this image. How is it that they thought they were accomplishing their objectives? Did they intend to appeal to some abstract Freudian concept that I am unaware of? You decide.

my vintage photo obsession

Hello gang, it's Bella. Today I wanted to post something a little different from what you've seen here before, but first let me tell you a little secret about myself: I have an overwhelming desire to obsessively collect great vintage magazine scans that I find online. I have at least 7,000 images of this nature on my laptop, all without any particularly good use. But I've recently decided that this blog would be the perfect place to share and discuss such images, perhaps in an effort to justify this somewhat pointless hobby. Today, I wanted to talk about the color yellow.









For a long time I refused to buy yellow clothing because my complexion and my hair are already too yellow in tinge. But lately I've had the compulsion to begin amassing mustard and saffron garments despite any previous bias. In doing so I've realized that yellow is one of the more subtle shades in the color spectrum, that it is both a summer and a winter color, and that it could possibly be beyond reproach. I love the way that yellow kind of softly slips into your eye and brightly remains. Blue and red are flashy and they make a distinct statement, but yellow simply is. Yellow is almost like the color of air.

Since I am probably making no sense to anybody but myself, I'll leave you all until next time.