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100 Years Of Bicycle Posters

0 Comments 19 November 2010

100 Years Of Bicycle Posters

I haven’t quite worked out if this is actually available for purchase or if it was just a once off! Very cool nonetheless and it looks excellent. I would give a lot to have this on my coffee table…

Excerpt from preface:

“This year marks the one hundredth anniversary of the two machines that have had a profound influence on us. It was roughly in 1872 that color lithography, which made colorful pictorial posters possible, came into popular use; it was also about 1872 that the modern bicycle evolved. It is the coincidence of these two inventions—the modern bicycle and the modern poster—converging and maturing at about the same time, that interested me. It is this founding and parallel growth, as evidenced by the bicycle posters, that this book illustrates.”

via http://reservela.net/2010/03/100-years-of-bicycle-posters/


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