{"id":5559,"date":"2013-05-30T11:38:04","date_gmt":"2013-05-30T11:38:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/delightfull.eu\/blog\/?p=5559"},"modified":"2013-05-30T11:49:24","modified_gmt":"2013-05-30T11:49:24","slug":"vintage-american-signs-by-marc-shur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.delightfull.eu\/blog\/2013\/05\/30\/vintage-american-signs-by-marc-shur\/","title":{"rendered":"VINTAGE AMERICAN SIGNS BY MARC SHUR"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The designer\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.marcshurphotography.com\/\" title=\"\">Marc Shur<\/a>\u00a0have put together an amazing collection of beautiful vintage American signs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve always been drawn to old things\u2014the worn,       the distressed,     the forgotten. Many of the signs I\u2019ve photographed are virtually invisible to most people. They pass them every day but they don\u2019t really see them. Their colors have faded,   their paint is peeling and they can\u2019t compete with all the new, shiny things around them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/woordup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/vintage-american-signs-1.jpg\" alt=\"Vintage American Signs\" width=\"600\" height=\"642\" data-lazy-loaded=\"true\"><\/p>\n<p>For Marc, old signs have a history and they can tell a story that no Wal-Mart or Taco Bell sign can.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey were once works of art themselves done by designers like me. They were landmarks and guideposts, promising a cold beer, a good meal or even a good time. They helped define a street, a neighborhood and an era. They had power. As a photographer, I want to give them a second life, pull them out of the past and elevate them once again to a place of distinction and even grandeur.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/woordup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/vintage-american-signs-2.jpg\" alt=\"Vintage American Signs\" width=\"600\" height=\"460\" data-lazy-loaded=\"true\"><\/p>\n<p>As Marc explain \u201d\u00a0I strive for a sense of hyperrealism and a graphic feel in my photographs, wanting the signs to be larger than life, appearing much bigger and important than they do in real life. I want people to see the colors and details as if they were standing just a few feet away.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Visit his web site\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.marcshurphotography.com\/\" title=\"\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/woordup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/vintage-american-signs-3.jpg\" alt=\"Vintage American Signs\" width=\"600\" height=\"410\" data-lazy-loaded=\"true\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/woordup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/vintage-american-signs-4.jpg\" alt=\"Vintage American Signs\" width=\"600\" height=\"510\" data-lazy-loaded=\"true\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/woordup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/vintage-american-signs-5.jpg\" alt=\"Vintage American Signs\" width=\"600\" height=\"646\" data-lazy-loaded=\"true\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/woordup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/vintage-american-signs-7.jpg\" alt=\"Vintage American Signs\" width=\"600\" height=\"396\" data-lazy-loaded=\"true\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/woordup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/vintage-american-signs-8.jpg\" alt=\"Vintage American Signs\" width=\"600\" height=\"760\" data-lazy-loaded=\"true\"><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The designer\u00a0Marc Shur\u00a0have put together an amazing collection of beautiful vintage American signs. \u201cI\u2019ve always been drawn to old things\u2014the worn, the distressed, the forgotten. Many of the signs I\u2019ve photographed are virtually invisible to most people. They pass them every day but they don\u2019t really see them. Their colors have faded, their paint is peeling and they can\u2019t compete with all the new, shiny things around them.\u201d \u00a0 For Marc, old signs have a history and they can tell [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":5560,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1440,1441,1437,1443,1442,1436,1444,994,1438,1439],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.delightfull.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5559"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.delightfull.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.delightfull.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.delightfull.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.delightfull.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.delightfull.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.delightfull.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.delightfull.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.delightfull.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.delightfull.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}