Lot 274
274 •(KODAK ADVERTISING DEPARTMENT--"ALL•BUM") A humorous company album and early example of photo-manipulation and appropriation, comprising 36 provocative photographs, each with the montaged face of a Kodak Advertising Dept. employee.
A curious and masterfully technical compilation, with seamless montages (in the negative) achievable only by a darkroom technician of such caliber as those at Kodak. The images include re-purposed Kodak advertisements, seductive images culled from popular sources, and French pseudo-erotica of the 1920s. Silver prints, the images measuring 4½x3½ to 11¼x8¼ inches (11.4x8.9 to 28.6x21 cm.), mounted recto/verso to vivid turquoise pages, each with the respective employee's autograph beneath their "portrait." Large 4to, paper boards, with a printed title and date, in blue and gold; twin-bolt binding. 1940
[1,500/2,500]
