El Presidente Posted March 15, 2018 Share Posted March 15, 2018 For those who haven't already purchased something today.....i am going to hold out until lunch time. A Century s Worth of Pleasure and Pause Selling the most delicious vices Vices or virtues: drinking and smoking provided marketers with products to be forged into visual feasts. In this lush compendium of advertisements, we explore how depictions of these commodities spanned from the elegant to the offbeat, revealing how manufacturers prodded their customers throughout the 20th century to imbibe and inhale. Each era s alcohol and tobacco trends are exuberantly captured page after page, with brand images woven into American popular culture so effectively that almost anyone could identify such icons as the Marlboro Man or Spuds MacKenzie, figures so familiar they could appear in ads without the product itself. Other advertisers devised clever and subliminal approaches to selling their wares, as the wildly successful Absolut campaign confirmed. Even doctors contributed to a perverse version of propaganda, testifying that smoking could calm your nerves and soothe your throat, while hailing liquor as an elixir capable of bringing social success. Whether you savor these visual delights, or enjoy inhaling and wallowing in forbidden pleasures, you will certainly be thrilled by this exploration of a decidedly vibrant and sometimes controversial chapter of advertising history. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cep Posted March 15, 2018 Share Posted March 15, 2018 Nice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guantanamera Posted March 15, 2018 Share Posted March 15, 2018 Thanks for posting, looks like a must have for me!!Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fuzz Posted March 16, 2018 Share Posted March 16, 2018 I love those old ads. Used to have a few posted up around my cubicle at my old job (I worked in the Liquor & Tobacco dept). HR had words with me about them, but I argued they were appropriate for the dept. 2 weeks later, somebody had taken them down and left them on my desk.... so I printed and put up a whole bunch more. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teewinot Posted March 16, 2018 Share Posted March 16, 2018 Will get a couple prints framed and hung for my basement bar. My lovely bride actually loves thus stuff! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anacostiakat Posted March 16, 2018 Share Posted March 16, 2018 Very nice! Just ordered!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrightonCorgi Posted March 16, 2018 Share Posted March 16, 2018 I love Taschen books. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Habana Mike Posted March 17, 2018 Share Posted March 17, 2018 On 3/15/2018 at 10:39 PM, Fuzz said: I love those old ads. Used to have a few posted up around my cubicle at my old job (I worked in the Liquor & Tobacco dept). HR had words with me about them, but I argued they were appropriate for the dept. 2 weeks later, somebody had taken them down and left them on my desk.... so I printed and put up a whole bunch more. And that's a reason you're your own boss now, eh? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fuzz Posted March 17, 2018 Share Posted March 17, 2018 1 hour ago, Habana Mike said: And that's a reason you're your own boss now, eh? Damn straight! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gweilgi Posted March 17, 2018 Share Posted March 17, 2018 It's not Taschen, but an excellent buy to accompany the next coffee table purchase... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anacostiakat Posted March 18, 2018 Share Posted March 18, 2018 Got my copies of the Taschen book! Thing weights a ton. Really like it! Ordered one for my brother-in-law too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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