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Surely the golden age of illustration was the 1950's. After that photography largely took over in magazines, advertisements, posters etc.
by goto11 7y ago
Surely the golden age of illustration was the 1950's. After that photography largely took over in magazines, advertisements, posters etc.
- Fricken 7y agoThe industry peaked in size sometime in the 50s, but it was more quantity than quality. While at the top you had superstars like Rockwell, Layendecker and Artsybashef, you also had massive industrial scale illustration houses hiring kids out of high school and training them up quickly to produce stylistically rigid and uniform illustration work at scale and for low pay. It wasn't a whole lot different than the way the Animation and video game industry works today.
- paganel 7y agoFor me the golden era is the 1930s and its art deco styling, something like this [1] or this [2] [1] https://i.pinimg.com/originals/ce/62/b9/ce62b9cf9c349ea8101827f1535e4001.jpg https://i.pinimg.com/originals/ce/62/b9/ce62b9cf9c349ea81018... [2] https://i.pinimg.com/originals/3c/67/d5/3c67d54d2fe785c773d29c6058517e23.jpg https://i.pinimg.com/originals/3c/67/d5/3c67d54d2fe785c773d2...
- close04 7y agoLet's not forget the "almost '30s" (1927) Metropolis movie poster [0]. One of the most iconic illustrations and my personal favorite. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolis_(1927_film)#/media/File:Metropolis_(German_three-sheet_poster).jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolis_(1927_film)#/media/...