Eames Archives: Collaging Ideas

By piling, gluing, taping, or drawing over a photograph with imaginary components, Charles and Ray used images to convey an idea and to test how a physical change would look before employing a great deal of effort and resources. They were using a photograph as a model for decision making. Read more about this process in our latest #EamesArchives blog: eames.link/collaging
Eames Archives: An Image as an Idea is a blog series written by Eames Office Photography Archivist, Kelsey Williams, with the intention of sharing rarely-viewed images from the Eames Office archive and the untold narratives attached to them.

[@sethbracken]

Thanks for your hard work and sleuthing.

[@riebling27]

I am trapped in 1962 and love the way their creative energies combined, a little too much :)

[@phonotical]

You should post here, great way of generating traffic!

[@Remiss63]

I’ve been wondering about the dark black circle (hole?) above the entry in the panels you reference at the end of the video. Is it a graphic element indicating the entrance? Does it serve a further function beyond acting as a sign and point of visual contrast?

[@phonotical]