Fading painted signs

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Ghost signs in Montreal, Canada, are an interesting category, due to the bilingual nature of the city and wider region of Quebec. This idiosyncracy has been covered in ‘Sur les murs‘ by Réjane Bougé. (Lovely photographs, contemporary and archival, but sadly the text is only […]

Ghost Signs of Montreal & Ottawa from John Toohey

This entry was posted in Sign Collections and tagged Canada Hands Studio John Toohey Montreal Ottawa Palimpsest Photographer Quaker Seven Roads Snider on August 24, 2018 by Sam Roberts

RE Ringer General Merchandise store front — In an effort to save this fading and rusting shop front, Beth and Tony Walls moved the entire building 150ft to allow for a highway widening project. Martin Garfinkel of Roadside Gallery has captured it beautifully in this fine art print, available to buy here. […]

Moving Walls to Save a Ghostsign

This entry was posted in Individual Signs and tagged Art Beth Walls Carrollton Coca-Cola Coke Georgia Ghostsigns Martin Garfinkel Photographer Photography Preservation Protection RE Ringer General Merchandise Restoration Roadside Gallery Tony Walls USA on March 14, 2014 by Sam Roberts

London ghostsign photographed by Mari Boman — Mari Boman, a photographer, took ghostsigns as the subject matter for her project titled ‘Liminal Space: past/presence’. The result is this series of nine beautiful images of some of London’s most well known ghostsigns. Not only that but the titles offer cryptic clues as to […]

Liminal Space: past/presence by Mari Boman

This entry was posted in Inspired by Signs Sign Collections Sign Stories and tagged Art Bovril Bryant and May Brymay Ghostsigns Liminal Space Mari Boman Peterkin Photographer Photography on August 25, 2013 by Sam Roberts

Mural depicting men hanging out on the steps of a house — Daniel Lohmann kindly shared the link to this archive of Los Angeles mural photography from Ernest A. Long. There is an introductory article on the Getty education blog and the collection contains 200 images, all taken between 1973 and 1883. Like London it seems that Los […]

Los Angeles murals photographed by Ernest A. Long

This entry was posted in Related Work and tagged 1970s 1980s Archive Art Daniel Lohmann Ernest A. Long Getty la Los Angeles Murals Photographer USA Wayne Healy on July 28, 2012 by Sam Roberts

Google streetview capture of a Hong Kong corner building — This image of a Hong Kong corner building and many others from the galleries of Michael Wolf are edited from his trawling of the material on google streetview. This interpreting and editing of google’s content has come in for some criticism which Geoff Dyer expands […]

Street photography using google streetview

This entry was posted in Off Piste Related Work and tagged China Google Hong Kong Michael Wolf Photographer Streetview on July 26, 2012 by Sam Roberts

Lemoore Can't Bust Em Overalls ghostsign by 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.Dr Jones’ work starts from […]

Dr Ken Jones’ mosaic technique for ghostsigns photography

This entry was posted in Inspired by Signs Sign Collections Sign Folk Sign Initiatives and tagged Art Ken Jones Mapping Mosaic People Photographer USA on April 18, 2012 by Sam Roberts

Omega Oil Frank Jump — Frank Jump is a leading photographer of Ghost Signs in USA with quite a unique story as to how and why he got started. I was in touch with him last year and he mentioned a visit to London where he saw one of the […]

Frank Jump

This entry was posted in Sign Collections Sign Folk and tagged Fading Ad Frank Jump New York Omega Oil People Photographer USA on June 22, 2007 by Sam Roberts