Word: blimps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pages'). Emerging one evening from the Kings Highway elevated station in Brooklyn, Koerner came face to face with a scene very much like the scene in the painting. The mural ad (for a photographer who specialized in wedding pictures), the poster with the sleeping baby, and even the blimp, were all there. What first struck Koerner about the bride & groom on the poster was that they reminded him of his parents. His second reaction was that they represented a gigantic "illusion" of wedded bliss, superimposed on the brick reality of the apartment house, and pierced with glimpses into cramped...
...returned time & again to the spot, made scores of sketches, slowly squeezed what he saw into the makings of a tight, striking, architecturally constructed picture. He captured, then dramatically heightened, the hot, wet, rosy light enveloping the scene. The blimp, when he saw it, carried a Goodyear sign; he substituted Socony's flying red horse "because I thought it was a nicer shape." The baby's head in the poster he enlarged considerably, and embellished with sinister rips. By its size and its leaden slumber, the baby dominated the picture; he might have been dreaming...