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Some History

This photograph is from Charles and Ray Eames, written by Naomi Stungo and published by Carlton Books Limited and is an excellent source for information on the Eames.

Ray and Charles Eames developed a massive information multi-media performance for the U.S. Department of State for a cultural exchange with Moscow in 1959. Either they or someone made a movie of them traveling to Russia and the problems that they had to overcome with the deadline and the actual presentation, which was held in a large geodesic dome designed by Buckminister Fuller. Charles Eames had pioneered in the development of presentations using multiple projectors




Oh Lester Beall. Kind of looks like something Man Ray would do, huh?

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