Luck and Death

2012/05/11

The Jackpot for a happy Christmas by MAD magazine 1964.

A German poster from pre World War II using the chess metaphor to call for a strategic vote.

"A game of cards" by the Flemish Baroque painter Theodor Rombouts. A peaceful scene suggesting leisure.

Cover of an American Pulp. The man who held five aces. No wonder that the fifth is the ace of spades, meaning death.

Rita Hayworth as a gambling femme fatale in the film "Gilda" (1946).

Voltaire is playing chess with the Pope and it looks like if he’s winning. One of the chess series by the German artist A. Paul Weber.

A Lady Luck on cover of the 1930s. She’s also the Ace of Hearts.

"The Card Players" (1890-92) by the French painter Paul Cézanne.

Ultra cool billard by the British fashion photographer Miles Aldridge.

Poster of "The Sting" (1973), probably one of the best known gambling movies with Paul Newman and Robert Redford.