Showing posts with label flickr. Show all posts
Showing posts with label flickr. Show all posts

May 22, 2013

No like New Flickr...

...and almost no one does.

(I was planning on illustrating this post with a grumpy cat image or something similar but... nah! Don't feel like it.)
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March 3, 2012

Cyanotype

"Stockholm, Sweden. View towards the Old Town and the Southern part of Stockholm city. Photograph by: Carl Curman." Year: 1900. Same view today.

Swedish National Heritage Board Flickr Phototream
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November 27, 2011

Lektyr Magazine Cover





Checking my Flickr account statistics I've realized that this is the most viewed image on my Flickr. It's a Swedish magazine cover from 1954. It has over 8.500 views. This should be compared with the just over 2.000 that the second place holder has managed to scrape together. And yet, not a single viewer has marked this seemingly popular cover as a favorite (my most liked image has over 70 fans). It's not a super cover or anything so this in itself doesn't surprise me. The combination, however, make me wonder and speculate.

Lektyr has been around since the 20s and in the 50s it was mainly a magazine containing adventure stories targeted at men. "How I managed to survive the wrath of the headhunter tribe". In the 60s, just like a number of other magazines Lektyr turn to pornography in order to survive. As far as I know - I haven't seen it in a long time (Scout's honor!) - it's now a hardcore porn magazine with a few articles on cars added to justify the readers interest in the magazine.

When googling Lektyr the image as well as the Flickr reference for this image seems to rank pretty high. Thus, my conclusion is that people searching for racy covers of Lektyr keeps coming across this not so sexy image. How disappointing it must be. No wonder it has no fans. Sorry.

Now I only wonder how many disappointed readers this post will have. I apologize in advance.
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April 29, 2010

Book Covers: Svenska landskapsrätter

("Provincial Cooking in Sweden") Cover by Ylva Källström, Printed 1963

A few new additions to my Book covers set on Flickr...
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March 18, 2010

Book Covers: Olle Eksell

Swedish edition of the Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Cover by Olle Eksell, 1952

A few new additions to my Olle Eksell set on Flickr...
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Earlier posts on Olle Eksell
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February 24, 2010

Ephemera: Bild-Lotto

P-E Fronning's Flickr: Bild-Lotto

A vintage game for kids age 3-7. This is a Swedish edition but it might be German from the beginning. Probably from the 60s. Who the illustrator is I do not know...
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December 2, 2009

Book Covers: Smalfilmskolan

"The School of Narrow Film", cover by: Rolf Lagerson, 1955

New additions to my Flickr.
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Book Covers: De houn...

"Frisian detective by A. Conan Doyle (Sherlock Holmes or. The hound of the Baskervilles) Issued in The Netherlands early 60's. Published by AJO."

twincovercollector's Flickr

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