Populuxe

Description

Thomas Hine’s 1988 look back at the consumer culture in America of the 1950s and 1960s, basically the world of Mad Men brought to life. Hine uses architecture, motor car design, children’s toys, fashion, beauty and homeware to chronicle a seemingly golden age of people buying stuff and quickly populating the new lands created in the boom era of the fifties. “We are moving ahead,” said John F Kennedy during his 1960 presidential campaign, “but not quickly enough.” The consumer goods being produced did their best at least to make Americans feel like they were moving ahead at a sufficiently rapid pace.