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In august 1968 the troops of the Warsaw Pact, led by Soviet command, crushed the Prague Spring. The end of peaceful reforms, more free speech and the loosening of party control in communist Czechoslovakia. Twelve years after the dramatic and violent suppression of the...
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Life of an artist as a young man: Warhol, Hockney and Kiefer Poster early expo David Hockney in the Rotterdam Boymans Museum (1970) Poster early gallery debut of Anselm Kiefer (Rotterdam, 1974) Collections of printed material often contain surprises. You’re...
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For decades the news and information most people depended upon came from the magazines of the Time-Life empire. Time gave short descriptions of the important developments in politics, business, education, art, science, sports, religion, cinema and much more. Life...
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Some of the great series in advertising were developed to prove to the customer that buying a small car wouldn’t make a difference in transport space. Off course it did but that would be a bad selling point. Because of the oil crisis in the early seventies average...
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Photo taken from the funeral train which brought the remains of Robert Kennedy from New York to Washington DC Early june 1968. Robert Kennedy, democratic candidate for the American presidency, was killed in a Los Angeles hotel. People all over the World mourned the...
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Today, june 6th 2018, cover-in-history enters the world wide web. It’s a website about paper, printing and the powerful image. Newspapers, magazines, photography, posters, stamps, cards, documents, written sources, brochures, advertising and much more. Please visit...