Sunday, May 24, 2015

Irvin Cobb and Camouflage: The SS Tuscania Sinks

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Camouflaged SS Tuscania (c1918) The following are excerpts pertaining to World War I ship camouflage from the wartime writings of Amer...
Saturday, May 9, 2015

USS Sturgeon Bay in Camouflage at Green Bay WI

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USS Sturgeon Bay in dazzle camouflage What colors were used on World War I American camouflaged ships , and in what combination? It seem...

Reed College Dazzle Camouflage

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Dazzle-painted USS Lake Charlotte (c1918) Above There is an unrestored version of this public domain postcard on the website of the Na...
Tuesday, May 5, 2015

Ghost Army Now in Book Form

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Two years ago, Rick Beyer came out with a documentary film, titled The Ghost Army , which premiered on PBS. It provided a vivid account of...
Tuesday, April 28, 2015

Painting White Horses for Camouflage During WWI

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German horse-painting (c1915) A couple of years ago, we posted a photograph of French soldiers applying dark coloring to a white horse ,...
Sunday, April 26, 2015

Ship Camoufleur Alon Bement—Again

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Alon Bement, artist, teacher and camoufleur We've featured American artist and teacher Alon Bement (shown above) at least three time...

Ann Elias on Flowers and Australian Art

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Cover of Ann Elias, Useless Beauty (2015) Art historian Ann Elias , Associate Professor of Theoretical Enquiry at the Sydney College o...
Friday, April 17, 2015

Everett Warner | Iowa Camouflage Artist Revealed

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Iowa Public Radio Podcast (April 17, 2015)
Friday, April 3, 2015

Steganography, Camouflage and Eviatar Zerubavel

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Cover of Hidden in Plain Sight (2015) Above Cover of the latest camouflage-related book, titled Hidden in Plain Sight: The Social Stru...
Wednesday, March 18, 2015

Dazzle Ship Camouflage | Stephen Hobbs

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Disruptive Ship Camouflage © Stephen Hobbs (2015) Above We've featured the camouflage-related work of South African artist St...
Friday, March 13, 2015

Abbott Thayer and Background-Picturing

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Background-picturing experiment with G.H. Thayer painting Above Roy R. Behrens (©2015), an experiment using Adobe Photoshop software in...
Thursday, March 12, 2015

New Book on Camouflage Cultures | 2015

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Cover of Camouflage Cultures (2015), available now The latest book on art and camouflage is an anthology of the papers that were fe...
Sunday, January 18, 2015

Futurist Togs For Sniper Camouflage (1917)

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US proposal for disruptively-patterned sniper suit (1917) Above This photograph of an American soldier dressed in a disruptively patter...
Friday, January 16, 2015

Hunters Masquerade as Cow (1578)

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US Patent No. 586,145 (1897) Above Patent drawings for US Patent No. 586,145, titled "Hunting Decoy," as devised by J. Sievers...
Wednesday, December 31, 2014

Joseph Harker | Dracula Meets Camouflage

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Portrait of Joseph Harker (n.d.) In the San Francisco Chronicle , on Sunday, May 11, 1919, a full-page article appeared on various aspec...
Wednesday, December 24, 2014

More A.E. Hayward Camouflage Cartoons

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A.E. Hayward, September 27, 1917, p. 22 In an earlier post , we talked about American cartoonist  A.E. (Alfred Earl) Hayward (1884-1939)...
Monday, December 22, 2014

Trojan Horse Camouflage | Shakespeare Too

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Sheboygan Press , January 1, 1918, artist unknown Above A cartoon illustration on the historic antecedents of World War I camouflage as...

William Jennings Bryan's Camouflage 1918

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William Jennings Bryan (1908) Above William Jennings Bryan during 1908 presidential campaign. •••  (Anon, CAMOUFLAGE BY MRS. [WIL...
Thursday, December 18, 2014

A.E Hayward's Camouflage Cartoons

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Above Cartoon by A.E. (Alfred Earl) Hayward (1884-1939), from his daily series “The Padded Cell,” in the Philadelphia Public Ledger on Oc...
Tuesday, December 16, 2014

What Is Camouflage? | René Bache

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René Bache, "What Is 'Camouflage'?" (1918) Above Full-page newspaper article titled “What Is Camouflage?” by René Bac...
Sunday, December 14, 2014

David Bower | Camouflaged Room Interiors

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All images © David Bower We've known about and admired the three-dimensional "camouflaged rooms" of Chicago-area artist Da...