Joseph Albers's Optical Tricks, Unidentified 1950s Magazine Article with Great Images apple shaped napkin holder now perfectly distressed but still

now perfectly distressed but still reflective mirror

from the is simple geometry and exactly right cropping of the house in the background

with a Water Street street sign marking the corner

I think this may be the largest ball in cage I've seen at 3 x 3 x 3 inches

There is some aging to the film covering the suits (amplified by my photo lighting) but no loss

Joseph Albers's Optical Tricks, Unidentified 1950s Magazine Article with Great Images apple shaped napkin holder now perfectly distressed but stillPretty cool to find this an original copy of a c. mid 1950s magazine feature on Joseph Albers and his teaching practice at Yale, with a series of two color reproductions of work by Albers and students plus four black and white photos of Albers and students in class. Albers arrived at Yale 1950s from Black Mountain (and the Bauhaus prior to that) to head the graphic design program, and would publish his seminal Interaction of Color in 1963, with this