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Retro Venice By Airstream

on June 26, 2009 11:15 AM | Comments (2)

As we mentioned earlier, the National Geographic Museum in DC has just opened a wonderful free exhibit called "Kodachrome Culture: The American Tourist in Europe," featuring big, luscious blowups of travel photos that appeared in the pages of National Geographic magazine (we call it NGM for short) in the 1950s and '60s. I particularly liked this photo of feeding pigeons in St. Mark's Square in Venice, dated 1957, by Ardean Miller III.

I was curious about the photo, so I pulled the second half of 1957 off our shelves (we keep the older magazines in leather-bound volumes), and found the picture on page 791, with the following caption (or legend, in NGM-speak):

"Finest Drawing Room in Europe," Napoleon Called Venice's Marbled Piazza
Gilded pinnacles and gem-bright mosaics give St. Mark's Cathedral the look of an oriental palace, Built about 830 and several times reconstructed, it is graced by treasures won when the city reigned as Queen of the Adriatic.

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