Gaugin: Bold and Beautiful

Gaugin used colors very boldly and in his own way. He was a painter, sculptor, print maker, ceramist and writer. Here are some of his work photographed in Black & White. Just feel the impact of his work in B & W. The original work in color has also been put. 

Landscape of Breton (1884 ) 

Still Life 

Portrait of Miss Cambridge (1891) 

The yellow Christ (1889) 

Pere Paillard (wooden, 1902) 

Self portrait (1892) 

Celebrities on US Stamps

Many celebrities can be found on the postal stamps. All these stamps has been issued by the US Postal Dept. 

Captain James Cook 

Carl Sandberg 

Copernicus

Daniel Webster 

Douglas McArthur 

Edgar Lee Masters 

Einstein 

Franklin D. Roosevelt 

George Washington 

Robert Frost

Dracula: Eternally dead yet alive

Bram Stoker's Dracula has been a character we love to read more and more about him. After it was first published in 1897, various editions are being published in many countries. This one is an illustrated story of Count Dracula which published in 1976 and it was the sixth reprint. The story was adapted by Naunerle Farr and illustrations were by Nestor Redondo. 

Just feel the impact of Stoker's Dracula through the illustrations of Nestor. 

The cover page 

The characters 

The Count with the background 

Just see the perspectives of the illustrations 

The story moves ahead with chills and thrills 

It has some close-ups and mid-shots 

The light and shades effect 

Some interesting locations 

.....and the happy end. 

78 rpm Records

The 78 rpm records have become extinct now. Though they have been preserved with the collectors with utmost care, it's hardly listened. Here is a glimpse of some records and their labels. The colour of the label was very important. 

Columbia record's cover

HMV record and its cover 

Jien-o-phone record cover

Megaphone record 

Twin record and its cover 

young india record 

various coloured lables 

Identity of Vadodara

These 4 companies were considered to be the identity of Vadodara, an industrial city of Gujarat, once upon a time. These ads were published in the year 1977.

Indian Petrochemicals Corp Ltd, Vadodara 

Melamine project of GSFC

Jyoti Ltd, Vadodara 

Chandan Metal Ltd, Vadodara.