Pose and Propaganda: Political Posters from the Contemporary Middle East & Afghanistan
November 14, 2014–June 28, 2015
The Wolfsonian–FIU @ 1001 Washington Avenue
The physical poses of individuals in images are rendered to communicate culturally specific meanings readily understood by their intended audiences. Using contemporary political posters from the collection of Pulitzer Prize-winning war correspondent Dexter Filkins, this installation considered a range of bodily gestures and expressions deployed to influence the values viewers bring to bear on this widely popular medium, and included posters from The Wolfsonian’s collection to illustrate the geographic and temporal range of this graphic strategy.