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

Posted by Roberto Bigano | Dec 29, 2025 | 1950s, Featured, Magazines, Portfolio |

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)

Posted by Roberto Bigano | Mar 4, 2025 | 1950s, Design, Magazines, Stories

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.

Social Events in 1920s High Society. By Fish

Posted by Roberto Bigano | Jul 2, 2024 | 1910s, 1920s, Anne Fish, Illustration, Stories, Trends, Vanity Fair |

A second compilation of pages from Vanity Fair and the book “High Society” on “Social Events in 1920s High Society,” illustrated by Anne Fish.
Any double-page plate focuses on a specific topic providing a unique, rich lens into American and international high society’s lifestyles of the 1910s and 1920s. Rigorously in black and white, these inimitable sketches are completed with entertaining captions.

Selected Contents from Portfolio No. 1 (Winter 1950)

Posted by Roberto Bigano | Nov 15, 2023 | 1950s, Design, Magazines, Stories

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.

Flirting, Engagement, Weddings & Divorce in 1920s High Society. By Fish

Posted by Roberto Bigano | Jul 16, 2023 | 1910s, 1920s, Anne Fish, Illustration, Stories, Trends, Vanity Fair |

A first compilation of pages from Vanity Fair and the book “High Society” on Flirting, Engagement, Weddings & Divorce, illustrated by Anne Fish.
Any double-page plate focuses on a specific topic providing a unique, rich lens into American and international high society’s lifestyles of the 1910s and 1920s. Rigorously in black and white, these inimitable sketches are completed with entertaining captions.

Category: Magazines

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

Selected Contents from Portfolio No. 2 (Summer 1950)

Social Events in 1920s High Society. By Fish

Selected Contents from Portfolio No. 1 (Winter 1950)

Flirting, Engagement, Weddings & Divorce in 1920s High Society. By Fish

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