Creative spark: vintage matchbook art – in pictures

When his daughter spotted some colourful matchbooks at a car boot sale in France, artist Aaron Kasmin was instantly enamoured. Created in America between the 30s and 60s, “feature matchbooks” were used to advertise alcohol and other products in the post-prohibition era. “They’re small, ephemeral masterpieces, and they’re just amazingly inventive,” says Kasmin. “To me they sum up reading Raymond Chandler and watching films with Humphrey Bogart and Lauren