50s Cars: Vintage Auto Ads

by Taschen (Editor), Jim Heimann

Highlights from American automobile design of the 1950s.

Genres: Art, Design

192 pages, Paperback

First published May 5, 2003

About the author

'Taschen is an art book publisher founded in 1980 by Benedikt Taschen in Cologne, Germany. It began as Taschen Comics publishing Benedikt's extensive comic collection. Taschen has been a noteworthy force in making lesser-seen art available to mainstream bookstores, including some fetishistic imagery, queer art, historical erotica, pornography and adult magazines (including multiple books with Playboy magazine). Taschen has helped bring this art into broader public view, by publishing these potentially controversial volumes alongside its more mainstream books of comics reprints, art photography, painting, design, fashion, advertising history, film, and architecture.' - Wikipedia

Reviews

[TriCedratops · Rating 4 out of 5]

Another great collection by Taschen. What I particularly like about this volume are the illustrations of cars of similar release dates that are placed together, allowing the reader to look at the vehicles comparatively.

[MKF · Rating 2 out of 5]

For some reason some of the captions list one years that is different from the year in some of the ads.