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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Portfolio Magazine — Brodovitch and the Reinvention of Editorial Design (1950–1951)
This featured story introduces a newly re-edited and expanded view of Portfolio Magazine, edited by Alexey Brodovitch, a radical editorial experiment published between 1950 and 1951.
This page brings together three fully restyled chapters and reframes them as a coherent visual archive: Portfolio’s three issues and selected contents.
This restyling allows for a clearer understanding of the magazine’s original visual logic, its full-spread reproductions, and the original descriptive texts.
Selected Contents from Portfolio No. 2 (Summer 1950)
Selected Contents from Portfolio N.2. Summer 1950. Each issue of “Portfolio” was filled with remarkable content, and we are dedicating a story to each issue. This is a focus on Issue No. 2, published in Summer 1950.
The introduction texts and the captions are taken from the original magazine.
Selected Contents from Portfolio No. 1 (Winter 1950)
Portfolio Magazine, edited by Alexey Brodovitch, was conceived as a radical editorial experiment and a laboratory for a new visual language.
This story brings together a curated selection from Portfolio No. 1, highlighting key spreads and sequences that defined its editorial approach.
Newly unbound, full-spread reproductions restore the magazine’s original designs, revealing compositions previously hidden by binding and reproduction limits.