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Typewriter portraiture, the strange story of 1920s ASCII art
In 1919, a 16-year old LA Times office boy named Kenneth Taylor was given a back-page spread to show off his typewriter portraits of film stars; Taylor's work then spread to Photoplay, and a new medium was born. (more…)
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