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  Jean d’Ylen: Master of the Vibrant French Poster   November 02, 2026       1920s , ads , illustration , work of art     Jean d’Ylen (1886–1938), born Jean Paul Béguin in Paris, was a leading French poster artist celebrated for his bold, colorful, and highly imaginative designs. After studying at the Bernard Palissy School of Fine Arts, he turned to poster art in the years following World War I and joined the renowned Vercasson printing house, where he succeeded Leonetto Cappiello as a principal artist. Over the course of his career, d’Ylen created more than 200 posters, advertising everything from wines, spirits, and paints to tires and cigarettes. His work is distinguished by vivid colors, dynamic compositions, and whimsical, larger-than-life characters that instantly captured attention. Though his career was cut short by his early death in 1938, d’Ylen remains one of the most inventive and vibrant poster artists of the interwar ...
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32 Photographs of Paul Hogan on the Set of “Crocodile Dundee” (1986)

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  On the set of the 1986 global phenomenon Crocodile Dundee , Paul Hogan approached filmmaking with the same laid-back, practical, and highly improvisational attitude that defined his iconic character, Mick Dundee. Hogan, who co-wrote the screenplay and developed the story, was a massively popular TV comic in Australia at the time but a first-time feature filmmaker. One of the film’s most famous Outback scenes, where Mick Dundee tames a wild water buffalo with a hypnotic hand gesture, was built on Hogan’s quick thinking. The production crew had administered a mild tranquilizer to the animal to make it lie down. When the buffalo’s legs began to give way unevenly, Hogan improvised his iconic hand gesture on the spot, and director Peter Faiman kept the take. Filming on location in Australia’s rugged Northern Territory and Manhattan, Hogan and his producer partner, John Cornell, deliberately engineered the movie to cross over into mainstream American markets. Despite the highly targ...
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