The 1950s Visual Archive

Browse our collection of ads, illustrations, and photographs published in the 1950s.
See also the Flair Magazine and Portfolio Magazine dedicated pages.

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The Colophon of Portfolio Magazine N.1, Winter 1950. Designed by Alexey Brodovitch

Portfolio Magazine — Brodovitch and the Reinvention of Editorial Design (1950–1951)

Selected Contents from Portfolio No. 2 (Summer 1950) The second issue of Portfolio confirmed the scope of Brodovitch’s experiment. Conceived and designed by Alexey Brodovitch, Portfolio was not a magazine in the conventional sense but an editorial experiment—treating photography, typography, illustration, and sequencing as a single expressive system. If the first issue announced a rupture, the second demonstrated that this was not an isolated provocation but a sustained editorial vision, bringing together unpublished works and contemporary experiments into a single, fluid sequence.- detail

Selected Contents from Portfolio No. 2 (Summer 1950)

Design from the Mathematicians. By Prof. Baravalle. Portfolio N.1 1950. Page 24-25 Left page: Above, a family of lines tangent to a parabola. Upper right, design based on series of concentric circles and parallel tangents. Lower right, a family of logarithmic spirals. Opposite page: Lower left, a family of curves satisfying a differential equation (by Professor Andre Saint-Lague of Paris). Upper left, a triangle inscribed with straight lines.

Selected Contents from Portfolio No. 1 (Winter 1950)

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