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The glasses on the cover don’t exist
SVA Collection: The glasses on the cover don’t exist. And yet… Cover and first page, 1966.
January 20, 2013

The glasses on the cover don’t exist

Henry Wolf conducted several magazine seminars at SVA in the 1960s. This untitled publication was produced in 1966 over the course of thirty evening sessions; Wolf challenged his students to transform words or phrases into original images. The final product captures Wolf’s sensibility: refined, artful yet accessible, and a little silly.


Black and white magazine spread; left side depicts a pig hatching out of an egg; right side shows a black box containing the text "Ham and Eggs"


 
Ham and Eggs

Black and white magazine spread; left is a blank white page with the text "Instant Christmas" in small text; right is a photograph of an aluminum wrapped container full of candy canes.


 
Instant Christmas

Black and white magazine spread; left page contains text, right is a photograph of someone putting a ring on a mannequin's finger


 
True love is like seeing ghosts; we all talk about it but few of us have ever seen one.

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