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Here is the latest in a series of examinations into urban legends about the world of photography and whether they are true or false. PHOTOGRAPHY URBAN LEGEND: A variety of Ivy Leagues took nude photos of most of their incoming freshmen for decades. While the topic had been come up here and there over the […]

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Here is the latest in a series of examinations into urban legends related to architecture and whether they are true or false. Click here to view an archive of the magazine urban legends featured so far. MAGAZINE URBAN LEGEND: A Playboy centerfold is the standard test image for image processing algorithms. It was in 1973 […]

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Here is the latest in a series of examinations into urban legends related to architecture and whether they are true or false. Click here to view an archive of the magazine urban legends featured so far. MAGAZINE URBAN LEGEND: TV Guide once put Oprah Winfrey’s head on Ann-Margret’s body for a cover. Nowadays, we’re a […]

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Here is the latest in a series of examinations into urban legends related to architecture and whether they are true or false. Click here to view an archive of the magazine urban legends featured so far. MAGAZINE URBAN LEGEND: Time magazine intentionally placed “devil horns” on Billy Graham and/or Bill Clinton as some sort of […]

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Here is the latest in a series of examinations into urban legends related to the world of sculpture and whether they are true or false. SCULPTURE URBAN LEGEND: Michelangelo had an interesting response to people doubting his creation of the Pietà. La Pietà is one of Michelangelo’s most famous works. He was commissioned to do […]

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Here is the latest in a series of examinations into urban legends related to the world of sculpture and whether they are true or false. SCULPTURE URBAN LEGEND: Auguste Rodin made a mold of a person for the basis of his statue, Age of Bronze. In a lot of ways, the beginning of Auguste Rodin’s […]

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Here is the latest in a series of examinations into urban legends related to the world of sculpture and whether they are true or false. SCULPTURE URBAN LEGEND: A Shakespeare expert was called to rule on the genital authenticity of a statue of a character from a Shakespeare play. Eric Gill was a widely respected […]

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Here is the latest in a series of examinations into urban legends related to fashion and whether they are true or false. FASHION URBAN LEGEND: Hugo Boss produced uniforms for the Nazis. Hugo Ferdinand Boss started his first clothing business in the early 1920s, when Boss was in his early 40s. By 1930, Boss was […]

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Here is the latest in a series of examinations into urban legends related to fashion and whether they are true or false. FASHION URBAN LEGEND: Coco Chanel had two legendary retorts to a marriage proposal by the Duke of Winchester and to a query by Poiret. If you went looking for the best example of […]

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Here is the latest in a series of examinations into urban legends related to fashion and whether they are true or false. FASHION URBAN LEGEND: Kenneth Cole came up with a rather…enterprising way of getting his product to the masses at Market Week when he began his company. Kenneth Cole was not yet 30 years […]