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AutoMobilia, The Collector’s Resource, Reviewed

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Review By Pete Vack

I am not an automobilia collector. I’m not in the market, don’t know the market, and couldn’t tell you if something was a fake unless it was labeled as such. I don’t even know how to find the values of automobilia and never watch the auction circuit. An Automobilia Ignoramus if you will.

So when I heard about the new magazine, AutoMobilia, The Collector’s Resource, I didn’t pay a great deal of attention. Then Sharon Spurlin, the magazine’s publisher, sent me the first two issues. And that got my attention. [Read more…] about AutoMobilia, The Collector’s Resource, Reviewed

The Art of Automobile Jewelry

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Placement, angle, lighting. It sounds so easy. But as this image of a Mercedes-Benz grille demonstrates, it is not so simple after all.

Automobile Jewelry Volume One: Mascots and Badges
By Michael Furman with Robert Strand
Order from Coachbuilt Press, Philadelphia
$100 USD

Review by Pete Vack

Michael Furman has always been a favorite of ours. His work, even when taken well out of context (for example placed within a hundred similar photos on Google Images), is easy to recognize despite frequent attempts by others, who find out it is not as easy to replicate the mood and the depth of Furman’s art as they perhaps thought. We don’t claim to be art experts ourselves, but Furman’s work is easy to grasp, understand and appreciate even for a philistine, just as anyone might easily be able to discern the differences in style, quality, and beauty between a Duesenburg when parked next to a Dodge.

One such image speaks volumes.

We often receive art books for review, and when another large volume (10 x 12 inches, 288 pages) arrived at our offices, I thought, well, another art book. However, I noticed that this one was by Furman; and the minute the book was opened, (nay, as soon as the cover was revealed) it was strikingly clear that Furman has again upped the bar for automotive art photography. [Read more…] about The Art of Automobile Jewelry

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