Wednesday, July 17, 2013

Camouflage Cartoons | Maurice Ketten

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Until a few days ago, we had never heard of an Italian-born American cartoonist named Maurice Ketten (1875-?), née Prosper Fiorini, and ...
Monday, July 15, 2013

New Uses of Dazzle | Stephanie Syjuco

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Dazzle-painted Fallingwater (2013) © Stephanie Syjuco Above In recent years, all sorts of people have adapted disruptive camouflage s...
Monday, July 8, 2013

Ship Camouflage Poster | L.A. Shafer

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buy online Above During World War I, those artists (civilian or military) who were not assigned to camouflage contributed in other ways...
Friday, July 5, 2013

Camouflage Artist | Nishan G. Toor

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Armenian-born American camoufleur Nishan G. Tooroonjian In a recent post , we mentioned the return to San Francisco at the end of World...
Thursday, July 4, 2013

Dazzle Camouflage Skirts and Swimsuits

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Above Here's one more example of the fashionable adoption of dazzle camouflage bathing suits near the end of World War I. Add this...
Wednesday, June 26, 2013

San Francisco Camouflage Artists

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Chameleons, German book illustration (1897) We've recently located a 1919 news article that describes the return to San Francisc...

Camouflage Artist | Edgar Walter

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Edgar Walter, Beauty and the Beast (n.d.) Above A sculpture titled Beauty and the Beast (n.d.) by San Francisco artist Edgar (Melvill...

Camouflage Music | Dinner Disappears

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Above The cover of the sheet music for a song called Camouflage: A Soldier's Song , with words by F.P. Drowne and music by Harry C. Z...
Monday, June 24, 2013

Camouflage Around the House

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Above A cartoon by H.M. Bateman from Punch , February 27, 1918, p. 133. • Our thanks to Richard Hawkins for providing additional inf...
Sunday, June 23, 2013

Camouflage Artist | Grant Wood

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Dust Jacket with Grant Wood painting (detail) Above Dust jacket for R. Tripp Evans, Grant Wood: A Life (New York: Knopf, 2010), based ...

Dazzle Camouflage in Obsolete! Magazine

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Cover of Obsolete! Magazine Number 8 (2013) In recent months , we were interviewed about dazzle camouflage by Iowa writer and editor R...
Friday, June 21, 2013

Dazzle-Camouflaged Coffee Cups

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Dazzle-painted coffee cups © Roy R. Behrens (2013) G.A. Martin, "Camouflaged Ship at Close Range Looks Like House Afire" in El...
Thursday, June 20, 2013

Douglas Garofalo's Camouflage House

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David Garofalo (model), Camouflage House (1991) Thanks to David Versluis ' blogpost, today we found out about an architectural proj...
Wednesday, June 19, 2013

John Dewey | Camouflaging One's Self

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Above World War I photograph of a British soldier, dressed in bark mimic sniper's outfit, posed beside a bark-covered observation pos...
Friday, June 14, 2013

Stephen Hobbs | Camouflage Pop-Up Book

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 Pop-up book (2013) © Stephen Hobbs In recent years, we've been following the work of a South African visual artist (based in Johann...
Wednesday, June 12, 2013

Dazzle Camouflage Bathing Suits

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Just when we thought we'd exhausted World War I photos and articles on dazzle-camouflage bathing suits , here are more. Above is a ne...
Sunday, June 9, 2013

A Vivid Account of Dazzle Camouflage

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Muirhead Bone, from Merchantmen-at-Arms (1919) THIS IS a large post, but deservedly so. It is a lengthy portion of a book (available i...
Saturday, June 8, 2013

Camouflage Artist | Norman Wilkinson

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Norman Wilkinson (1919) Above At the end of World War I, British marine artist and poster designer Norman Wilkinson , who claimed to ha...
Friday, June 7, 2013

Abbott Thayer's Bald Head

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Above Recently we ran across this photograph from a 19th-century stereograph of an artist in his studio, entertaining his children (more...
Tuesday, June 4, 2013

Dazzle Camouflage as Delirium Tremens

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Above In an earlier post , we featured a World War I-era paragraph from the Washington Times , in which dazzle ship camouflage was compa...

Art and Camouflage | John Everett

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Above Watercolor painting by UK artist John Everett of the SS Sardinian (Allan Line) in 1918. The original is in the Beaverbrook Collec...
Friday, May 31, 2013

Ghost Army Camouflage DVD

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Good news! Rick Beyer's excellent documentary on the Ghost Army , the World War II deception unit, which premiered only last week, i...
Wednesday, May 29, 2013

Jonnie Morris Film on Dazzle Camouflage

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Jonnie Morris | Dazzle Camouflage Documentary Above I've known about this documentary film project since the fall of 2011, when I ...