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January, 2014:

Drink Coca-Cola – Southern Fried Chicken – Fried Clams – Boston, MA

August 2007 © Frank H. Jump

  • Previously on FAB: Coca Cola vs. Pepsi Cola – Columbus Ave. – South End, Boston – Aug 15th, 2007

Michelin Tires – Cairo, Egypt – Uptown Correspondent, Iman R. Abdulfattah

© Iman R. Abdulfattah

Mecca Smokes—East 70th Street & York Avenue, NYC

Taken June 1997. Ad circa 1910. From the Fading Ads of NYC (History Press, 2011) © Frank H. Jump

Coca-Cola and Mecca Smokes Pentimento – Bleecker & Carmine Streets, NYC – 1997

Circa 1905 – From the Fading Ads of NYC (History Press, 2011) © Frank H. Jump

In explaining a layered fading ad, I’ve always used the term pentimento, a painterly term that describes evidence of a previous work on a canvas seen through an existing upper layer. Viewing these works under varied wavelengths of light, like ultraviolet, infrared and even X-ray scanning, can aid scientists in deciphering both palimpsests and pentimenti. The use of the word pentimento in “street and photography” has also been cited on the Internet as a term “used in a modern sense to describe the appearance of the sides of buildings with painted advertising.” Often when newer ads are painted over older ads, “the paint wears away to reveal the older layers.” Examples of this can be seen in the work I did in the Netherlands in 1998 while photographing fading ads in Amsterdam¹. – From the Fading Ads of NYC (History Press, 2011) © Frank H. Jump

Coca-Cola Deleting enraged LGBT comments from Facebook Page | O-blog-dee-o-blog-da #shareacokeza

Coca-Cola Deleting enraged LGBT comments from Facebook Page | O-blog-dee-o-blog-da.

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Coca-Cola – North Tarrytown, NY

Fujichrome – August 1998 – © Frank H. Jump

Coca-Cola – Wakefield – Bronx, NY

241st Street & White Plains Road, Wakefield, the Bronx. Taken August 1997
From the Fading Ads of NYC (History Press, 2011) © Frank H. Jump

Coca-Cola – Dante Ferretti: Design and Construction for the Cinema September 28, 2013 – February 9, 2014 @ MoMA

Dante Ferretti: Production Designer (MoMA Exhibition) CLICK FOR LINK

Dante Ferretti: Design and Construction for the Cinema examines design practice for film through the lens of Ferretti’s work, which is distinguished by the structural role it plays in the collaborative process of cinema art. As digital technology transforms the way films are staged, replacing the real with the virtual, Ferretti’s work comes at what may be the end of a 100-year-long tradition of full-scale, studio-built environments for films. This exhibition also serves to document this transitioning of cinema practice through its selection and organization of drawings, large-scale installations, and digital projection. – MoMA

Coca-Cola – Hegaz Street – Heliopolis – Cairo, Egypt – Uptown Correspondent, Iman R. Abdulfattah

© Iman R. Abdulfattah

Greenfield’s Chemist Revisited – Cortelyou Road, Brooklyn

© Frank H. Jump