Monday, November 18, 2024

scout's oath / true boys do not chew gum in classroom

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CAMOUFLAGE in The Clinton County Times (Lockhaven PA), December 6, 1918— Long before the word was used there were boys who practiced camou...

british dazzle plane is mostly black and jazzy yellow

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DAZZLE PLANE IS ENGLAND’S LATEST in Times Daily , March 3, 1925— LONDON, England (UP)—Airplanes “like flying zebras” have joined the Britis...
Sunday, November 17, 2024

dazzle / pied pigment is a nuisance in a crowded port

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USS West Galoc / 22 August 1918 RAZZLE, DAZZLE, NEW CAMOUFLAGE EFFECT in Pittsburg Press , February 24, 1918— NEW YORK, Feb 23—Camouflage ...
Thursday, November 7, 2024

a frieze of tiny men in uniform take pot shots at doves

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Donald Friend. Anne Gray, Ed. The Diaries of Donald Friend. Vol 1. National Library of Australia (Canberra), 2001— One day the editor of t...
Wednesday, November 6, 2024

French Infantry helmet broken up by painted lines

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POILUS CAMOUFLAGE EVEN HELMETS NOW in Bridgeport Telegram (Bridgeport CT), September 13, 1918— The French poilus [slang term for WWI Fren...

Veil on Helmet intended to Deflect Flying Fragments

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Above WWI infantry helmet (1918) with a suspended veil of chain, which was supposed to lessen the damage caused by flying schrapnel fragmen...
Friday, September 27, 2024

american camouflage expert, both artist and scientist

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Charles Bittinger (1946) Above This is a news photograph of American artist Charles Bittinger (1879-1970). We have blogged about him in th...
Thursday, September 26, 2024

WWI woman camoufleur Margaret Anthony Young

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Until recently, I don’t think I had heard of an American industrial / interior designer named Margaret Anthony Young . Originally from Jacks...
Tuesday, September 24, 2024

ship from which Hart Crane committed suicide / 1932

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USS Orizaba The American Modernist poet, Hart Crane , took his own life at age 32, by jumping from a ship into the Gulf of Mexico while en r...
Sunday, September 22, 2024

Burnell Poole's paintings of WWI camouflaged ships

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Portrait of Burnell Poole (unknown photographer) In an issue dated March 28, 1920, an illustrated article appeared in the New York Tribune ...

extraordinary dazzle-related artworks / Michael Miller

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Michael Miller, Counterintelligence Beginning with World War I and the adoption of abstract disruptive patterns for ship camouflage (called ...
Saturday, September 21, 2024

a scenery painter and shipbuilder turns to camouflage

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Above This photograph was taken during a 1918 Fourth of July parade down Fifth Avenue in New York City. It shows wartime shipbuilders walk...

Camoufleur Donates Materials to Brooklyn Museum

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US Navy photograph of ship camoufleur Everett L. Warner Brooklyn Museum . Report Upon the Conditions and Progress of the Museums for the Yea...
Wednesday, September 18, 2024

B.J.O. Nordfeldt's connection to WWI ship camouflage

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Portrait of B.J.O. Nordfeldt Above This image is cited on Wikipedia Commons as a portrait of Swedish-American artist Bror Julius Olsson Nor...
Saturday, September 14, 2024

World War I marine camouflage exhibited in Brooklyn

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Above An official US Navy photograph (digital coloring) of Lieutenant Harold Van Buskirk , who was head of the Camouflage Section (comprise...

confusion afloat / zigzag splashes of patterned color

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Above Dazzle-camouflaged Swedish cargo ship during World War I. Public domain. Digital coloring. ••• Leslie Walker , The American: A Novel ...
Friday, September 13, 2024

nautical costuming / the effect is weird and startling

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Above Page with ship camouflage diagrams by Alon Bement in "Principles Underlying Ship Camouflage in International Marine Engineering...
Wednesday, August 7, 2024

dazzling new shoe camouflage / bipedal misdirection

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Works by Steve Morris People may recall that, since 2020, we have on occasion been posting examples of the dazzle ship camouflage plans of ...
Wednesday, July 31, 2024

Edoardo Dotto / on camouflage & mimicry as duplicity

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online link Recently I became acquainted with the writings of a professor of architecture, named Edoardo Dotto , at the University of Catani...
Friday, July 26, 2024

an excellent account of the word origin of camouflage

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Philip Hale, music critic There were at least two prominent people named Philip Hale , who were contemporaries and both from New England. Ph...
Friday, July 19, 2024

Thomas Casilear Cole / WWI ship camouflage artist

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Thomas Casilear Cole In the mid-19th century, there was a prominent trend in painting called the Hudson River School , which consisted of a ...
Thursday, July 18, 2024

a checkered tablecloth / the man Picasso hated most

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Juan Gris , Still Life with Checkered Tablecloth (1915) Above An especially masterful painting by Spanish artist Juan Gris , titled Still ...
Wednesday, July 17, 2024

not a camoufleur / Maine artist Willard W. Cummings

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Willard W. Cummings So, who actually served as a wartime camoufleur? It’s not always easy to answer. For example, I recently ran across publ...
Saturday, July 13, 2024

he painted camouflage on the sides of trucks & trains

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Eisenstein and others in Japan Above Such an astonishing photograph. Taken in the 1920s in Japan, this is a detail of a photograph of a lar...