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This history of the cover art for “The Great Gatsby” [21 pictures]

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby was published in 1925 with the classic cover that many of us will recognize — A dark blue back ground with the eyes and mouth of an otherwise invisible face set over a glimmering cityscape…

Since the original edition, numerous graphic designers and artists have re-presenting this classic to the masses. Scholar and Fitzgerald biographer Matthew J. Bruccoli has collected many of these editions over the years and they are now housed at the University of South Carolina…

(via The New York Times, This Isn’t Happiness)

Read more: http://twentytwowords.com/this-history-of-the-cover-art-for-the-great-gatsby-21-pictures/

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