Stack of L’Illustration magazines tied with string the old-fashioned way
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Founded in 1843, L’Illustration was one of the first French weekly magazines to combine text and image to document world events. This pile brings together magazines dating from around 1890 to 1930's — a half-century of political, scientific, artistic and social chronicles. With a priority to illustrations, then photos... Even the advertisements are perfect reflections of the time!
Piled to a height of 75 cm and simply tied with string, as was once done in libraries and archive rooms, this is a tribute to paper, ink, and the slow accumulation of knowledge, in an age when everything disappears with a swipe. Around 300 magazines in 75cm
Piled to a height of 75 cm and simply tied with string, as was once done in libraries and archive rooms, this is a tribute to paper, ink, and the slow accumulation of knowledge, in an age when everything disappears with a swipe. Around 300 magazines in 75cm
