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The Vanished Glamour of Midcentury Print Media Great examples of photography and editorial design abound at the Jewish Museum. (Catch the catalog, too.) The Vogue cover of March 15, 1945, features a blurred model behind a frosted glass panel emblazoned with a red cross, photographed by Erwin Blumenfeld and art-directed by Alexander Liberman. It is “scary and sad to think that no mainstream fashion title would now publish a cover this bold,” our critic says.Credit.Erwin Blumenfeld, via Condé Nast April 29, 2021 In a city whose news kiosks have become glorified chewing gum emporiums, where the Grand Central newsstand shelves are overtaken by chips and phone chargers, one of my few remaining happy places is Casa Magazines. It’s a hole of a shop on the corner of Eighth Avenue and 12th Street, and every wall and every inch of floor heaves with obscure, international fashion and design publications, for a dwindling class of print lovers. (I still remember, when I founded a magaz

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