1940s - Pin-Up

Why Pin-Up Style Refuses to Die

A specific scene set in the present. February 2026, a photo studio in Burbank, ...

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1940s - Pin-Up

Rosie the Riveter and the Strange Afterlife of a Wartime Poster

A specific moment. February 1982, the offices of the Washington Post Magazine in downtown ...

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1940s - Pin-Up

Casablanca and the Hollywood Films That Shaped 1940s Style

A specific Thanksgiving week. November 26, 1942, the Hollywood Theatre on West 51st Street ...

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1940s - Pin-Up

Robert Capa and the Photographers Who Ran Toward the War

Omaha Beach, June 6, 1944, approximately 6:30 AM. Robert Capa wades ashore from a ...

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1940s - Pin-Up

Brutalism Was Born in the Bombed Cities of Postwar Europe

Marseille, October 14, 1952. A new apartment building called the Unité d’Habitation opens its ...

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1940s - Pin-Up

Glenn Miller, Big Bands, and the Sound of the Home Front

A specific evening in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. December 1, 1941, six days before Pearl ...

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