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In 2016, after months of grueling research, academics crowned Pantone 448C as the world’s ugliest color. It’s a drab shade of brown so soul-crushing that governments slapped it on cigarette packs to match the cheerful imagery they commissioned photographers to capture. Yes, actual photographers were tasked with turning the horrors of smoking into art. Diseased lungs, rotting teeth, and those haunting stares from oxygen mask guy became the Mona Lisa’s of public health warnings.
Why let all that artistry go to waste? Nicotine Nightmares is the collectors album that invites you to discover the strange beauty in the gruesome. Each photo is its own little masterpiece of misery, captured with the precision of a gallery portrait. It’s the collection you won’t be able to quit.
In 2016, after months of grueling research, academics crowned Pantone 448C as the world’s ugliest color. It’s a drab shade of brown so soul-crushing that governments slapped it on cigarette packs to match the cheerful imagery they commissioned photographers to capture. Yes, actual photographers were tasked with turning the horrors of smoking into art. Diseased lungs, rotting teeth, and those haunting stares from oxygen mask guy became the Mona Lisa’s of public health warnings.
Why let all that artistry go to waste? Nicotine Nightmares is the collectors album that invites you to discover the strange beauty in the gruesome. Each photo is its own little masterpiece of misery, captured with the precision of a gallery portrait. It’s the collection you won’t be able to quit.