Under the frank and outspoken Donny Deutsch, the agency grew from a small shop specializing in print advertisements for blue-chip marketers like Oneida silver into a powerhouse known for hip, aggressive ads that draw attention with cheeky, occasionally outlandish humor and sometimes outrageous premises.
SPEAKING of the Times - maybe I'm behind in my newspapering but there was an advertisement for Blue Label Johnnie Walker Blue Label Scotch Whiskey right on the front page last week Well, I salute the Times for surviving in these hard days for print.
And advertisements for Empire Blue Cross and Blue Shield point out that it has outlived many New York institutions, like the Automat and The Herald Tribune.
The rare splash of color came from the blue advertisements for a billboard company that read: "What do our boards have in common with the C.I.A.? They're both all over the place".
Fashion editorials and beauty features with titles like Queer Rage, Masking, and Demons pepper the pages of Indigenous Woman, alongside advertisements for faux products like Blue Lagoon Morisco sunless bronzer, paired with the tagline "Brown is Beautiful".
Possibly Bellocq made these portraits for the women, possibly primarily for himself, possibly for blue books, the advertisements of their wares that New Orleans bordellos published much as call-girl agencies in Las Vegas do today.
WHEN you write a post on Facebook about your sudden craving for blue cheese, an advertisement for gout prevention might suddenly pop up on your page.
Some advertisements advertise for multiple women at the same time.
"Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1855 by J.H. Colton & Co. in the Clerks Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York". Includes advertisements for Metropolitan Insurance Co. of New York printed in blue surrounding map.
