Rob Walker, who blogs at MKTG, sent me a link to Nadine Boughton’s The Pleasures of Modern Living series. As Boughton describes the images,
Using vintage magazines and materials, I scan and compose digital collages, piecing together fragments of memory into new narratives. My intention is to blend the nostalgia for the past with the darkness beneath “the pleasures of modern living.”
I am interested in the portrayal of women and domestic culture; the illusion of security; food as an object of desire and comfort; and the grip of materiality.
Here are a few:
Also check out Boughton’s True Adventures in Better Homes series, a commentary on the images of femininity and masculinity represented in ’50s men’s adventure magazines and Better Homes and Gardens.
