Club AVi’s XII-year Anniversary Posters Series
Political Posters
Free Press, Paris, May 1969
The simplicity, directness, and clarity of mind displayed in the Paris 1968 posters is distinctly impactful. While this poster's visual style is primitive at best, its message is extremely sophisticated and encouraging. On one hand, the poster conveys the idea that the press is controlled by the police, the authorities, the state, and nothing but the police version of 'reality rolls' off the newspaper presses. On the other hand, the poster is telling us that a truly free press squashes police state lies and government fabrications.
"The magazine has always used its illustrated covers cleverly, switching weekly between lighthearted seasonal visuals and harder hitting political observation. Both types of cover appear without comment or headline,
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