Friday, March 30, 2012

Camouflage Artist | Paul F. Brown

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USS O'Brien in dazzle camouflage (1918) In an earlier post today, we mentioned our recent discovery that (du...

The Venus of Camouflage

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WWI-era 42-cm howitzer, called Big Bertha. Creative Commons . Anon, illustration of deceptive outfits ( Syracuse Herald , 1917) Dur...
Thursday, March 29, 2012

Camouflage Artist | Follette Isaacson

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Bedazzled   /  RISD Camouflage Blog About a year ago, in a post called WWI Ship Camouflage Teams , we listed ten locations aro...

Camouflage Artist | George W. Weisenburg

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Papier mâché dead horse and wagon (c1918). Author's collection. In an earlier post called Horse Carcass Camouflage , w...
Sunday, March 25, 2012

Camouflage Artist | Stanley Martineau

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Stanley Martineau (detail) in his studio, n.d. Recently we ran across an Associated Press Wirephoto, dated January 19, 1943, which inc...
Saturday, March 24, 2012

Camouflage Artist | Ezra Jack Keats

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Ezra Jack Keats (from Keat's Neighborhood ) Like Robert Lawson (who illustrated The Story of Ferdinand in 1936), his acclaimed pr...
Friday, March 16, 2012

Camouflage and Baseball

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American baseball in France, 1917 Recently we ran across this 1917 press photograph of a baseball game in wartime France. In the backg...
Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Gestalt Theory, Cubism and Camouflage

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On Max Wertheimer and Pablo Picasso: Gestalt Theory, Cubism and Camouflage
Friday, March 9, 2012

Art / Science Camouflage Podcast

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Hooded Cutttlefish (photo by Silke Baron). Creative Commons . EARLIER THIS WEEK, Woods Hole marine biologist Roger Hanlon and vid...
Tuesday, March 6, 2012

Camouflage Research Bibliography

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Camouflage Research Bibliography
Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Camouflage from Silhouettes

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© Roy R. Behrens 2012 From Everett L. Warner, "Marine Camouflage" in The Bush Magazine of Factory and Shipping Economy ...
Saturday, February 18, 2012

Camouflage on YouTube

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Roy R. Behrens on camouflage
Thursday, February 16, 2012

Mass Production Camouflage

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WWI artillery vehicle, with factory camouflage applied From Frank Parker Stockbridge, Yankee Ingenuity in the War. New York: Harper and...
Friday, February 3, 2012

Cagoules | WWI Camouflaged Robes

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From Roy R. Behrens , CAMOUPEDIA: A Compendium of Research on Art, Architecture and Camouflage (Bobolink Books, 2009), p. 79— Cagoules w...
Thursday, January 19, 2012

Arthur Lismer | WWI Ship Camouflage

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Arthur Lismer (1885-1969), a British-born Canadian painter and a member of the Group of Seven , was not a camouflage artist. Beginning i...
Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Camouflaged Cannon Duplicate

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purchase online Here's an oddity: In an earlier post , we reproduced a painting (the top image above) by an artist named S. Ugo,...
Saturday, January 14, 2012

WWI Dazzle Camouflage Poster

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Above World War I poster by American illustrator Adolph Treidler (1886-1981), printed and distributed by the Publications Section of the...
Thursday, January 12, 2012

Ship Shape | Dazzle Camouflage in WWI

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Wasp-like dazzle camouflage by Alon Bement in SHIP SHAPE From Peter Krass , Portrait of War: The US Army's First Combat Artists...
Thursday, January 5, 2012

Cubist Rooster Camouflage

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Reproduced above is a seemingly senseless arrangement of lines, one of many that appeared on the entertainment pages of American newspap...
Saturday, December 17, 2011

Australian Decoy Cow

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Papier mache decoy cow (1944) For more about this decoy papier mache milk cow, devised by World War II Australian camouflage artists, ...
Wednesday, December 14, 2011

San Quentin Prison Camouflage

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Inmates in striped prison suits (not at San Quentin) From Dean Jennings, "Inside San Quentin Prison: Factory for Forgotten Men...
Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Hugh B. Cott | Zoologist and Camoufleur

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from Hugh B. Cott, Adaptive Coloration in Animals (1940) Reproduced above is one of my favorite drawings from what is one of my favorit...
Sunday, December 11, 2011

Camouflage as Hide and Seek

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WWI disguises: one thing looks like something else From Reginald John Farrer, The Void of War. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1918, pp. 6...
Saturday, December 10, 2011

Building Camouflage

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News photo of a British hospital in disruptive camouflage (c1918) From American Architect and Architecture Vol 17 (1920), p. 704— ...
Tuesday, December 6, 2011

WWI Camouflaged Pissoir

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World War I (August 1917), a camouflaged pissoir Color photography was invented prior to 1914, but it wasn't widely u...
Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Camouflaged Pigeon Roosts

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WWI camouflaged pigeon roost During World War I , one of the fastest, most effective ways to send a message wa...
Friday, November 25, 2011

Camouflage and Masquerade

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Regrettably we don't know the source of this photo. I found it several years ago, and have since misplaced the notes. I remember that...

Camouflage Artist | Kimon Nicolaides

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Nicolaides, The Natural Way to Draw American artist and teacher Kimon Nicolaides (1891-1938) is best-known as the a...
Thursday, November 24, 2011

French Truck Camouflage

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Colored lithograph from La Guerre Documentée To my mind, this is one of the most exquisite illustrations of camouflage, as practiced...
Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Camouflage Artist | Robert Webb Jr.

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John Singer Sargent, The Hermit (detail), oil on canvas, 1908 Of late, we've been trying to find information abo...
Saturday, October 29, 2011

Camouflage & the National Parks

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From Linda Flint McClelland, Building the National Parks: Historic Landscape Design and Construction . Baltimore MD: John...