Paging through vintage magazines feels like falling into a time warp. The cost of fashion and beauty products alone is boggling ($6.95 for suede gloves! $15 for a wool dress!). They serve as unique capsules from a bygone era of style and fantasy, a time when the people at the helm could make or break artistic careers. One such kingmaker was Alexey Brodovitch, whose art direction for Harper’s Bazaar, across decades, from the mid-1930s through the 1950s, set a new standard for graphic design and photography in magazines.
