Of course, I could just be fooling myself too.

-Gary

Thanks for sharing this!

This is the iconography I became aware of as a teenager (yes, I am that ancient!).

Then a few brilliant art directors came along and demanded a new way of looking at things… Alexey Brodovitch said “If you look into your camera and see something you’ve seen before, don’t click the shutter”.

Marvin Israel and Harpers magazine ushered in a new era. I quote the excellent webpage http://photography.about.com/library/weekly/aa100900b.htm here: “Probably the greatest achievement during Israel’s short time - around 20 issues - with the magazine was his dynamic partnership with Avedon, which led to some of Avedon’s greatest work, starting with the publication of the first full-frontal nude in a leading fashion magazine (a Countess in a fashion article on ‘The Woman Within’) and going on to a mock-tabloid shock horror feature debunking the Paris collections.”

Closing thought… The postcards reminded for the first time in ages of the ironic homoerotic take on this kind of imagery by Pierre et Gilles… haven’t thought about them since the nineties!