Farewell and RIP to the Hammersmith Palais

Photo: Caroline Derry / HAT

Thursday, 10th May 2012 marked the final destruction of the once proud Hammersmith Palais, home to this underground-platform-long ghostsign.  Dances were once twice daily but the evidence of this now only remains in these and other photographic records.

Dr Ken Jones' mosaic technique for ghostsigns photography

Lemoore, California (Photo: Copyright, Dr Ken Jones)

Dr Ken Jones is a former NASA imaging expert whose work in the 1970s included digitally photographing the surface of Mars.  This required the use of image 'mosaics', a technique which he is now applying to the more terrestrial subject of ghostsigns.

Walls by Deidi von Schaewen

Deidi von Schaewen's 'Walls' is a lovely hardback book that documents hand painted advertising on walls in the 1960s and 1970s.  It's geographical coverage is noteworthy with examples from Berlin, London, New York, Paris and elsewhere in France.