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SELECTED BYWARD SUTTONMCCARTHY: PEACE POSTERDESIGNED BYBE N SHAHN
Ben Shahn’s 1968 poster for presidential candidate Eugene McCarthy completely broke the mold of staid, graphically bland campaign posters.
The font and illustration styles remain striking and hip (notice Shahn’s influence on contemporary illustrators such as Edwin Fotheringham), and its design is still defiantly radical more than forty years later.
The poster has a brilliant design that I never seem to get tired of. But it’s also inspiring to see how Shahn combined his political feelings with his art in a way that avoided being heavy handed and yet had such graphic strength.
Shepard Fairey’s 2008 poster for then U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama may have helped ...
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