vintage mural ads & other signage by Frank H. Jump & friends
August 2009 © Frank H. Jump
Seattle City Hall will open for several hours for wedding ceremonies on the Sunday after Washington state’s new law allowing gay marriage takes effect. – The Seattle Times, November 16, 2012
© Frank H. Jump
The Ford publication The International Jew, the World’s Foremost Problem. Articles from The Dearborn Independent, 1920
According to Wikipedia, Ford was the only American mentioned in Mein Kampf (p.639).
Fading Ads of the Village: A Lecture by Frank Jump
Wednesday, November 28
6:30 – 8:00 p.m.
Washington Square Institute, 41-51 East 11th Street, 4th Floor
Free; reservations required
RSVP to rsvp@gvshp.org or 212-475-9585 ext. 35
From New York’s iconic skyline to its side alleys, the new is perpetually being built on the debris of the past. For nearly twenty years, Frank Jump has been documenting the fading ads that are visible, but less often seen, all over New York. Disappearing from the sides of buildings or hidden by new construction, these signs are remnants of lost eras of New York’s life. This photo-documentary is also a study of time and space, of mortality and living, as Jump’s campaign to capture the ads mirrors his own struggle with HIV. During this presentation that will focus on the fading ads of the Village, experience the ads–shot with vintage Kodachrome film–and the meaning they carry through acclaimed photographer and urban documentarian Frank Jump’s lens. His book,Fading Ads of New York, will be available for sale and signing.
A general view of the Far Rockaway station… In the mid 1920s – Courtesy of The Wave – CLICK FOR LARGER IMAGE
John Winkler’s Sons – Fur Storage © Frank H. Jump
© Frank H. Jump
© Frank H. Jump
John Winkler’s Sons Motor Van Service – Allied Van Lines © Frank H. Jump
John Winkler’s Sons Rug Cleaning © Frank H. Jump CLICK FOR LARGER IMAGE
CLICK FOR LARGER IMAGE © State of NY – Queensboro Public Library/Rockaway Memories dot com
Photographer: Ron Ziel on Sept. 15, 1937 © Rockaway Memories dot com CLICK FOR LARGER IMAGE
Brooklyn Daily Star – December 26, 1912 – Courtesy of Fulton History dot com
Bulletin of the American Warehousemen’s Association – No. 185 Vol. XVI – July 1915 – Google Books
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© Sam Roberts
Flying pigs, retro hairstyles and hand grenades are among some of the images found in this new book celebrating the art and craft of Cambodia’s hand-painted advertising.
Sam Roberts, a long-time member of the visual anthropological and urban archaeological community, has published his first book Hand-Painted Signs of Kratie, a brilliant and colorful monograph that “introduces the signs, the people who paint them and uses them to explore Cambodia’s art, culture and history.” Mr. Roberts has authored the website and archival project called Ghostsigns UK and has been instrumental in the historic preservation and documentation of vintage painted adverts in his island nation. Roberts was drawn to this “quirky” form of hand-painted advertising while he and his wife Gilly were doing humanitarian work with Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO) in Cambodia.
While the signs have experienced something of a resurgence in the last three decades, they now face another demise, this time at the hands of technological and economic development. In this respect, author Sam Roberts draws parallels with his interest in ‘Ghostsigns’, the fading remains of advertising painted on buildings in his native UK: “The loss of hand-painted signs marks a distinct period in countries’ economic development. It is the point at which access to technology and rising labour costs tip the balance in favour of mechanical or digital formats. In the UK this happened in the middle of the last century, in Cambodia it is happening today.”
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