Christmas gift suggestions
Looking for that perfect gift? Please post your suggestions here.
I'll start.
Does everyone know what antique cabinet cards are? According to Wikipedia, they are "a style of photograph which was widely used for photographic portraiture after 1870. It consisted of a thin photograph mounted on a card typically measuring 108 by 165 mm ( 4 1⁄4 by 6 1⁄2 inches)."
Examples:
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Good. Now the fun begins. There is this artist, Alex Gross, who collects cabinet cards, as a matter of fact, he's purchased dozens of them off EBay. What he does with them could be considered controversial, depending on how much of a history purist you are.
He paints over them.
Not just anything. Classic film, TV, superhero, sci-fi: anything culturally interesting is fair game. And don't be a hater, judge the results:
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Alex has collected many (tho not all) of his cabinet card work in a fabulous little hardcover book, Now and Then: The Cabinet Card Paintings of Alex Gross, and i cannot recommend this stunning collection enough.
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You can purchase this jewel for your significant other on Amazon for less than $20, and believe me, it is so totally worth it.
I have two copies.
So, what suggestions do you want to pass on, hmmm?
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