Artworks

Affluences in Europe: with the new wave of prosperity, trade or luxury items flourish. Record sales are soaring, despite their relatively high price. This big store on the Champs Elysees is open seven days a week, late into the night, and is crowded with customers all the time, Paris

Knoll Sample

Affluences in Europe: in France, prosperity immediately translates itself into good food. The variety of cuts of meat sold in the market is staggering: everything from barbecued chickens to calf hearts, from the lushest whole hams to tripe is lovingly displayed in neat rows decorated with green leaves and herbs, a butcher-shop in Paris

Ehon haya shinan

Odori hitori geiko

Hokusai gafu (Hokusai's picture book)

Knoll Sample

Miss Rita Renoir thinks that striptease gets its effect on the viewer, as it is done with mind and feeling, more than with the body. To demonstrate this theory, Rita Renoir performed for us a "striptease of the face", from the series "Strip-Tease"

Sayama ryū Sanjū Rokkasen

Hana no Edo kabuki nendai ki

Rehearsal in Costume, from the series "La Télévision"

Meiwa gikan

Affluences in Europe: Turin's auto show is he latest in the year of all those held in Europe, and also the biggest. Practically all of Turin works for Fiat the salon, held in the brand-new exhibition hall, is attended by thousands. This year's show, the 39th, attracted record crowds

Meiwa gikan

Yoshitsune ichidai jiki

Yale Symphony Orchestra Poster

Hana no Edo Kabuki Nendai Ki

Teacher watching boy write on chalkboard next to poster, Guinea

Yakusha kuni no hana

Tsugiho no hana

A September Passage

Head of a Child

Street Blockade, Merafe

Section 19 of The Blind