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“In the final months of World War II, Norman Rockwell delivered ‘The Homecoming’, his highly resonant cover illustration for the May 26, 1945 issue of ‘The Saturday Evening Post’, published just eighteen days after the surrender of Germany. The timely and emotional image tells the story of a young soldier arriving home, where family, neighbors and even a love interest rush to greet him with ecstatic joy. With his back to the viewer, the message focuses less on the war’s effect on the Marine and more about the family’s jubilation around their loved one’s safe return. Deborah Solomon writes, ‘In the center of the composition, a redheaded grandmother opens her arms as if to welcome not just her boy, but all the sons who served in the war. America welcomes you home, she seems to be saying.’ (‘American Mirror: The Life and Art of Norman Rockwell’, New York, 2013, p. 233). Complete with Blue Star Flags hanging in the windows, each star representing a family member serving in the war, the message of hope and reunion in ‘The Homecoming’ inspired the U.S. Treasury to reproduce the image as a promotion for the final War Loan Drive with the slogan, ‘Hasten the Homecoming…Buy Victory Bonds’. . . .“
[Source: Lot essay in Christie’s sale of the original painting on May 21, 2019. The painting sold for over $6.5 million.]
“Rarely, if ever, has science fiction plumbed so deeply and with such sensitivity the depths of human thoughts and emotions as in this case. For here, Earthmen’s vote has a direct effect upon the future of a planet, their own culture and the universe itself.” [Editor’s note]
“A Case of Conscience” is a Hugo Award-winning sci-fi novel about a Jesuit priest, Father Ruiz-Sanchez, sent to investigate the planet Lithia, inhabited by a reptilian race that has achieved a perfect, sinless, and logical society without religion or God. Lithia seems like a utopia, with its inhabitants living in perfect harmony, raising questions about original sin and the necessity of faith and morality.
The story centers on Father Ruiz-Sanchez’s deep psychological and spiritual crisis as he grapples with his scientific findings and religious doctrines. The core conflict is the struggle between his faith and the observable reality of a morally superior, yet godless, alien race. The story is a deep dive into logic, faith, and the nature of good and evil, wrapped in classic science fiction with strong theological underpinnings, exploring whether true perfection can exist outside of God's grace or if it's a sign of something far more sinister. Might it even be a diabolical deception justifying a quarantine to protect humanity, despite the Lithians’ apparent goodness?
The novel features detailed, imaginative settings, including Earth's post-nuclear underground society and Lithia's unique, mineral-scarce technology.
Harper's Bazar, February 1919, cover by Erté. Scanned from "Designs by Erté: Fashion Drawings & Illustrations from Harper's Bazar"
Thanks to "sunjin76' once again for making a fantastic magazine cover from my pix !!
Doesn't she do GREAT work? I could never have thought up the clever text and colors. I love it !! fd's Flickr Toys.
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“Alone in the emptiness of space, the two psychologists suffered the mental static of a whole planet, and no matter where they went the interference followed.” [Prologue]
Cyril M. Kornbluth (1923–1958) was an American science fiction writer whose precocious talent emerged early: he learned to read at three, wrote stories by seven, and graduated high school at thirteen. As a teenager he joined the Futurians, the influential New York fan collective that included Frederik Pohl, Donald Wollheim, Judith Merril, and Isaac Asimov. Under a tangle of pseudonyms—Cecil Corwin, S.D. Gottesman, Simon Eisner, Walter C. Davies and others—he became a prolific contributor to the pulps before serving as an infantryman in World War II, where he was decorated for his service. After the war he attended the University of Chicago and briefly worked in journalism before returning to fiction with renewed force.
Kornbluth’s postwar writing established him as one of the sharpest satirists of mid century science fiction. His short stories, including “The Little Black Bag” and the notorious “The Marching Morons,” blended dark irony with social critique and helped define the era’s more acerbic tone. His collaborations with Frederik Pohl—most famously “The Space Merchants” and “Gladiator-at-Law”—offered biting portraits of consumerism and corporate power, while his solo novels such as “The Syndic” explored alternative political futures. Kornbluth died suddenly of a heart attack at age 34, leaving behind a compact but influential body of work that continues to resonate for its wit, pessimism, and prescient cultural insight.
[Sources: Wikipedia, SF Encyclopedia, and Britannica.com]
So much life crammed in an all-too-brief 34 years.
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It was a beautiful colorful sky and I thought it would be a lovely sunrise on Trout Lake Near Boulder Junction Wisconsin. As I sat there watching the sky turn in to a beautiful red and orange just before the sun rose, I was lucky enough to capture this amazing silhouetted scene.
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Mel Hunter was famous for the skinny robot identified as “the last man” on no less than 16 covers for “The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction” between 1955 and 2003. Now, we have another one of Mel Hunter’s robots, a squat cube shooting marbles with a boy at what may be a futuristic space museum. Off in the distance, we can see school children being led, perhaps by their teacher, on a tour of the museum.
The robot isn’t towering, sleek, or menacing. It’s almost toy-like, and it’s engaged in a game that—on paper—it should absolutely destroy a child at. Marbles (like pool) is all about precise angle, force, and velocity. A robot with even rudimentary sensors would be a shark at that table.
And yet the scene doesn’t feel competitive. The robot’s posture is low, almost deferential. The boy is relaxed. The museum tour in the background reinforces the idea that this is a world where robots are integrated into daily life, not as threats or overlords, but as companions, helpers, curiosities.
Marbles is a child’s game that rewards presence more than cunning. And that’s why Hunter’s choice works. He’s not showing a robot winning. He’s showing a robot joining in. It’s there to share the moment, to be part of the scene.
{Time Project 2010}
Ok, let me see if I can NOT be wordy about this one, lol (I make NO promises, REPEAT…NO. PROMISES.)!
I’ve always thought that the saying “time heals all wounds” was very true, and am guilty of even using it as a comforter. But now…..I think all this time maybe I’ve believed a lie. Time DOES NOT heal all wounds. Or does it? I have to wonder if it actually does or if over the course of time our wounds just fade into the background of our memory as life happens, and new wounds present themselves? Well, I guess I’m speaking quite generally, but OBVIOUSLY I can’t speak for the entire human race, lol. SO…for me PERSONALLY this represents the fact that time has not healed my wounds but I instead allowed them to be BURIED under everyday life, happy moments, other wounds, new stages and adventures in my life, etc. etc. etc.
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December is a great time to act innocent and sweet as Santa prepares his gift list. This boy’s no fool.
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Experimental multiple exposure trying a macro lens with no flash of the October 2019 Marie Claire issue with Miranda Kerr on the cover. It was hard to get a bit of focus for each shot, but the blurriness I think gives it something
Nikon F4. Ilford Delta 3200 35mm B&W film.
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I thought others might appreciate these tidbits of forgotten history of People of Color.
Please feel free to leave any comments or thoughts or impressions... I look forward to reading them!
Experimental multiple exposure of Miranda Kerr on the cover of the January 2011 Vogue Australia.
Was trying my macro lens on my F4, & didn't have the best light so it was hard to focus, but one shot being slightly out of focus I kinda like.
Nikon F4. Ilford Delta 3200 35mm B&W film.
Tokyo Bright is on the cover of Vogue again? That girl is on fire!
She is wearing the stock outfit from Brenda’s Extraordinary Day for the theme “A dedicated follower of fashion” in the Blythe a Day group on Flickr. The background is a poster. Words added in PicMonkey.
For this week's photo challenge. The challenge this week was to take a picture that you might would see on the cover of your favorite magazine.
There are many magazines that i enjoy. This one is my favorite and the only one that I have a subscription to.
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The AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science) contacted me as they were looking for dog images for the cover of an edition of their renowned scientific journal Science.
They needed a variety of breeds, fur colours, ages. Via my licensing archive with hundreds of different pets and thousands of different pictures they were able to choose exactly what they were looking for.
After they sent me their final selection, I edited the images for them to be able to conveniently place them into their layout.
This was a wonderful project and I'm very happy to see my images on this important magazine.
It's the AAAS' mission to advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all people. And we here at Elke Vogelsang Photography proudly support that.
“A Novel of a Lost World.”
“It was a nightmare place of devilish beauty – and horror, brooded over by the slow-death poison of a plant that was seeded in hell! And into its silent menace one man must go, to save its self-willed prisoners from its fatal lure . . .”
The novel was first published in “Hutchinson’s Adventure-Story Magazine” in May, 1923 as “Fields of Sleep” by E. Charles Vivian (pseudonym of Charles Cannell), and published in hardcover in 1980 by Donald M. Grant. It is a strangely imaginative fantasy novel in which Victor Marshall is hired to find an Englishman who has disappeared into remote and unexplored Asia. Marshall’s expedition leads him to a hidden valley whose inhabitants are descended from ancient Chaldean colonists. They are dependent upon a narcotic flower whose fragrance produces a strange ecstasy, while destroying the power of speech.
THE COVER
“Learning to play a piano in this day and age is no trifling accomplishment. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, whose likeness is sitting on our young virtuoso’s volume of finger exercises, was playing minuets on the family harpsichord at age four – but could he have done so if he had been obliged to play with flippers on both feet and a swimming pool staring him in the face? We wonder.
“The model used by artist George Hughes is the same youngster who appeared on our January-ninth cover. His mother was standing over him on that occasion, letting him know that he had stalled long enough and that he was not to go outside until he had written a Christmas thank-you note to Uncle Vic. Guess who’s going to be verbally roasted again this week when mom spies that soggy towel on the piano?” – Editor’s Note
Cover illustration for a Mexican La Peste magazine, issue No.8 Delirio
watercolors, colored pencils and digital
March / April 2013
George Ericson (1893–1936), who worked under the name Eugene Iverd, was an American illustrator, teacher, and painter. Iverd came to Erie, Pennsylvania in September 1921 directly from the U.S. Army. In the army, he was an instructor at the Walter Reed Hospital in Washington, D.C., doing art therapy with shell-shocked veterans. He was an art instructor at Erie's Academy High School, where he gave his time to art classes until 1930, when his commercial work became too heavy. He sent many Erie Students to the Academy of Fine Arts at Philadelphia and, at one time, there were six of his students out of one hundred.
As an illustrator, he shared an important accomplishment alongside artists as Grant Wood, Frederic Remington, N.C. Wyeth, Andrew Wyeth, and Norman Rockwell. They all sold paintings to the Curtis Publishing Company that were used for covers on "The Saturday Evening Post." He produced 29 covers for the Post between 1926 and his death in 1936.