Magician's Publicity Photos

Dear Reader,

Recently I began wandering the public domain sphere of magic. I found a lot of really cool old art, old theatrical posters, old paintings of medieval magic/theatre festivals, old theatres. Those are all awesome, and I will be sharing some of those with you next week.

However, in the effort of recreating the experience I had digging through a series of public domain works (many of which are from the 1920’s and beyond) I also came upon a significant amount of modern magician publicity images. Now, many of these have been uploaded by the magicians themselves, onto public domain servers such as wikimedia commons, so it’s all fair game for me to share them here, but every time I think about doing it, I almost feel sad. Granted, I know I’ve taken some cringe photos as well at a younger age, but then again, I didn’t have the wherewithal to upload them onto a server for literally anyone to access and use for the rest of eternity.

I link you here for either your enjoyment or suffering, or perhaps both: some of them are really a sight to behold.

— J.R.