phototipografio

Photographic + Typographic Ephemera

  • 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? […]

  • Fielding Dawson New Collages

    Fielding Dawson New Collages

    Fielding Dawson new collages. Light Work, 1978. Copy #14 of 1000. Limited edition artist publication in connection with the exhibition of work at the Light […]

  • Exposure 16:2

    Exposure 16:2

    exposure: The Journal of the Society for Photographic Education. 16:2 Summer 1978. This may be one of the first reproductions of images from Hal Fischer’s […]

  • Beslar Enlarging Lens Packaging

    Beslar Enlarging Lens Packaging

  • In The Merry Month of May…

    In The Merry Month of May…

    Portions of catalog for an exhibition of photographs by Larry Stark. 1970. Addison Gallery of American Art in Andover, Massachusetts.

  • Massachusetts Council on Crime & Correction

    Massachusetts Council on Crime & Correction

    Massachusetts Council on Crime and Correction publication. Photography and Design by Mason Morfit. Text by Sam Tyler. This well financed system produces sick art and […]

  • Seal Dry Mounting Tissue

    Seal Dry Mounting Tissue

    Seal Dry Mounting Tissues (Various). Typefaces: Helvetica (modified for logotype), Cooper Black

  • DuPont Velour Black Brilliant Professional Paper

    DuPont Velour Black Brilliant Professional Paper

    DuPont Photo Products: Velour Black Brilliant VB-RW3 Professional photo paper. A Long Chemical Industry Love Story: E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company manufactured photography […]

  • Photography Fundamentals

    Photography Fundamentals

    Photography Fundamentals: A Student’s Basic Handbook of Data. Ken White. The University of New Mexico, 1976. Instructional material. Typefaces: Eurostile, Helvetica, Courier