The Clash at Bond's, 1981

This poster is for when the Clash did a residency at Bond's International Casino (now Bond 45, a restaurant) in Times Square in 1981. They played 17 shows in three weeks to support "Sandinista", which, by the way, is one of my favorite albums of all eternity; so as you can guess, I would just about die to be around at that time!!!! And to top it off, the opening bands included the Fall, the Slits, the Dead Kennedys, Bad Brains, and Bush Tetras – all the goods.

It's worth mentioning that all the shows were sold out and they caused fire hazards, riots, police intervention, etc.

For VERY extensive details about the residency, check out this site. It has scans of all associated news articles, set lists, photos, and a timeline of events.

Miscellany

 

Poster for the 1965 West German re-release of The Seven Year Itch; designed by Dorothea Fischer-Nosbisch (1921 - 2009)

Yasmeen Ghauri, Nadege du Bospertus, and Beverly Peele

Poster for India Song, 1975

Careers board game, USA 1950's

1970's New York, unidentified photographer

Miscellaneous: How Random Can I Get?

Helloooo!!! This art-direction is off the hook! Too bad it's probably not quite on-brand. Vogue, December 1940

 What a fun poster!  Brooke Shields by Richard Avedon and Keith Haring, 1985

I am into this look that Goldie Hawn sported in "Overboard"

A collection of David Bowie tickets

Chanel ensembles shot by Helmut Newton, 1983. I would absolutely, most definitely wear those dresses.

 Debbie Harry looking cute. Shot in Toronto by Bob Gruen in 1977

Jacques Tati by Robert Doisneau, 1949

Vladimir and Georgii Stenberg

The Stenberg Brothers, Vladimir and Georgii, were Russian/Swedish designers, known for creating avant garde/constructivist theater and film posters in Moscow during the 1920's and 30's.

Clyde Bruckman's A Real Gentleman, 1928

Ivan Perestiani's Countess Shirvanskaya's Crime, 1926 (see The Sound's album Jeopardy)

Carl Froelich's High Society Wager, 1927

Hans Behrendt's Six Girls Seeking Shelter, 1927

Ivan Pravov's The Last Flight, 1929

Nikholai Okhlopkov's The Sold Appetite, 1928

See more work by the Stenberg brothers here.

1980's Japanese Posters

 Yusaku Tomoeda, Design School, 1987

Shigeo Fukuda, Ten World Artists, 1982

Shigeo Fukuda, The Sun, 1981

Posters

Dr. Chicago by Karl Wirsum, 1971

Graphic Design in China, © Chen Shaohua, 1992

Film poster for the Czech release of The Misfits, 1961

Dog Eat Dog at Club 57

Film Poster for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, 1975

Miscellaneous

Where is this? Who saw it? How come no one took it apart? What else is there? How will I ever find out?

UPDATE: Thanks so much to Stefano, who has let me know that this was taken by Kyle Telechan in  2009. Its title is Abandoned Ferris Wheel. The photographer doesn't remember the exact location of it, other than it's in North Carolina.

FURTHER UPDATE: Digging deeper, I found that it's actually in Mercer County, Virginia, at the "haunted" Lake Shawnee amusement park. There are shit-tons of personal accounts of people who spent time there to wade through at photographer Karen Steuben's website (though very many of the stories are nearly intelligible due to their poor grammar and writing skills.)  There is interesting history of the site as it was a Native American-Colonists' battleground, leading to cursed land, leading to present-day hauntings.

Beach babes are so brave, ca. 1930's

1970 Ferrari 512 S Modulo concept car, by Pininfarina. See how the roof slides forward to open? It must not rain if you plan to drive, or the car will totally get messed up on the inside.

 The media in the 1920's declared Paul Whiteman as the King of Jazz.

Poster remake for Jim Jarmusch's 2003 film, Coffee and Cigarettes. The clever design by Viktor Hertz is a big improvement over the original (in terms of design, anyway.)

CBGB Posters

When I was working on a project for CBGB, I had the privilege to dig through all kinds of stuff they've kept around over the years. They had a cache of old posters, and these from the late 70's/early 80's were the ones I liked the best.

It looks like they were all done by the same person. I tried to figure who he/she is but I can't. Their signature looks like it says S. Ray.  I did some digging, and it appears that the designer is Stephen Thomas Ray; he is a portraitist now.

This one is my fave of the bunch. I don't know much about the band The Colors, but here's some information about them.

It surprises me a bit that I don't know any of these bands. That sounds kind of arrogant, right?

Levi and the Rockats were an British/LA rockabilly band.

The Sorrows are another band I'm not familiar with, but here's what I found about them. They were a power-pop group. My boss has a friend who was in the Drongoes, but I don't know much about them beyond that.

The Student Teachers existed between Easter 1978 and Halloween 1980.

The Bloodless Pharaohs became the Stray Cats after moving from New York to London.

This poster had been hanging in Hilly Kristal's office since the show happened. It's glued over the top of an 1950's movie poster (probably Tamango, starring Dorothy Dandridge), and it's in pretty crummy shape. Hilly must have been really into the Police in order to have kept it up for so long.

And by the way...I don't care what anyone thinks: I will always count the Police as one of my top favorite bands of eternity.

Olde New York

I haven't listened to this early 80's, all-girl, no wave band yet, but they have all the ingredients that make me fall in love. Here's an article about them published earlier this year in the Village Voice

New York subway, shot by Erik Calonius, May 1973

CBGB, NYC, 1977; © Bob Gruen. Looks fun!

No Wave all-stars hanging out on the Bowery. Shot by Godlis, summer 1978.
I'm not cool enough to be able to identify all of these people, but I do see Diego Cortez, Anya Phillips, Lydia Lunch, and James Chance.

Skins on Ave A. Looks mid-80's

Miscellaneous

This is from a March 1990 fashion editorial in Spin magazine. I was happy to discover that there's an archive of old Spin magazines, page-for-page, on Google Books. I used to read it like a handbook when I was a teenager. Ha!

Poster for the German release of the 1962 film Cleo from 5 to 7, by the only female French New Wave director, Agnés Varda, and starring Corinne Marchand. It's about a French pop star who is wandering around Paris, awaiting the results of a biopsy between 5 and 7pm, while most people in the city are out messing around.

The Camel Thru the Needle's Eye was a 3-act comic play published in 1929, written by Frantisek Langer. It was performed between April and October of that year.

This is either a poster or a program guide for the play. It was designed by Frank Walts, a somewhat obscure African-American illustrator. The majority of his known work are covers for The Masses, an American socialist periodical published from 1911 to 1917.  A short biography of Walts appears in Art For The Masses by Rebecca Zurier (Yale University Art Gallery, 1985).

Chet Baker and his wife Halema in 1955. His plight (and concurrent heroin face) is terribly sad.

Vanity and Prince

Miscellaneous

Pair of 19th century gold earrings from India, available through Sue Ollemans.

Matchers from Bordelle by Alexandra Popa, Fall 2009

I'm not sure exactly what this is, other than an Esso gas station. It doesn't look entirely realistic, and I don't have information about it at all. It is just cute though.

Hello Dolly poster by Richard Amsel

Lucite Organ and Speakers by Wersi, Germany/USA, 1987. There were only 2 prototypes in America, used as display models. Fresh!!