The Visual Telling of Stories

Sunday, February 21st, 2010 - Nicholas Calcott


From Fortune magazine, November 1947, art direction Will Burtin

So, I stumbled across this website because it popped up in a Google search for Ezra Stoller images.  It seems to be a storehouse of images related to it’s title, ‘The Visual Telling of Stories’, assembled by Chris Mullen, a former professor at the University of Brighton.  When entering via the URL, you get a limited advertising archive, but if you enter here, you get a massive archive of all kinds of visual stories, including some spreads of classic art direction from Fortune magazine (like this visual study of American advertising culture or this one on astrophysics) that I’ve recently developed an interest in through studying up on Walker Evans, whose work, conveniently, he has a decent archive of, available here…

Seriously, this is well worth spending a couple hours rummaging through.

Check out ‘The Visual Telling of Stories’ here, with the bulk accessible through the back end here.

Roundup

Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009 - Nicholas Calcott

stoller
After that last post, I just couldn’t help posting an Ezra Stoller photo on this one

So I got back from Arles about a week ago, but getting back into the swing of things has proven a bit difficult.  We had a great time down there, but you’ll have to read more about the festival elsewhere.  In the meantime, however, my folder is overflowing with things to post, so I’m just going to have to clear away some of the more miscellaneous ones now: