phototipografio

Photographic + Typographic Ephemera

  • Vignetter + Instructions

    Vignetter + Instructions

    “This simple process enables you to give an ordinary picture that “professional” look…” INDEED. Typeface: Unknown Monospace

  • Ovo Magazine

    Ovo Magazine

    Ovo Magazine, Issue: The Automobile Canadian photo magazine “…published every three months, OVO Magazine is dedicated to the promotion of photography as a means of […]

  • Kodak Color Separation & Gray Card

    Kodak Color Separation & Gray Card

    Kodak color printing and reproduction guides. “Please Credit Photo to Gwyn Metz” (I want one of these stamps, more than I can express). Typeface: Helvetica, […]

  • Eaton’s Corrasable Typewriter Paper

    Eaton’s Corrasable Typewriter Paper

    While technically not photography related ephemera, this gift from photographer Shelby Roberts, is too good to ignore. It features the perforated feeds that would have […]

  • hvorledes man opnaar gode billeder (How To Take Good Pictures)

    hvorledes man opnaar gode billeder (How To Take Good Pictures)

    hvorledes man opnaar gode billeder or how to take good pictures. The oldest piece of ephemeral material I have found so far comes from Bergen, […]

  • Printing Templates/Handmade Negative Holder

    Printing Templates/Handmade Negative Holder

    An assortment of handmade printing templates and negative holders from a recent donation of photography equipment. Handmade gear always holds the trace of the hand […]

  • Antistaticum

    Antistaticum

    Ilford Anstitaticum cleaning cloth with Olden Camera embellishments. Come up and Save! Back in the day when camera stores were plentiful. Typeface: Helvetica Condensed? or […]

  • Kodak Neutral Test Card

    Kodak Neutral Test Card

    Kodak Neutral Test Card*Design Primarily for Color Photography Typeface: Helvetica

  • Hasselblad Brochure

    Hasselblad Brochure

    Hasselblad’s promotional materials for the focal plane shutter 2000 series. Hasselblad deviated from the classic leaf shutters found in the 500 series cameras for the […]

  • Analog (The)

    Analog (The)

    A quick one-off post. I’m finishing up Robert Hassan’s “Analog” (from the MIT Essential Knowledge Series) and could not be more enthralled with this analysis […]

  • Shots Magazine No. 13

    Shots Magazine No. 13

    Shots Magazine, Number 13. Published in 1989. Beautiful hand-drawn lettering and high “late 80s” graphic design. One can almost smell the Xerox involved in this […]

  • American Mime Theatre Textbook

    American Mime Theatre Textbook

    Probably the strangest and most specific piece of ephemera to be found to date. Apparently bigot and misogynist were viable mime types at one point? […]