Image by Favianna Rodriguez
Date: August 16, 2007
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Description: It's silly what will motivate me to pitch a story. This time, it was because I wanted to get Inkwork's new book, Visions of Peace and Justice, a full color book with over 400 reproductions of political posters, for free. And of course I put in more labor than what I would have paid for the book!
But in proucing the piece, I met Lincoln Cushing an Doug Minkler, two key players in the Bay Area's political poster circle.The SF Print Collective supported the story by supplying a very nice person to wheatpaste for me to gather that beautiful ambiance. I also finally met Favianna Rodriguez, an art crush of mine. This woman is powerful and she's under 30!
A couple of interesting things happened in producing this piece. The first was when I spoke with Dee Dee Workman with SF Beautiful. I thought for sure she'd have some negative things to say about political wheatpasters. But instead, she agreed with folks like the SF Print Collective and Rodriguez: the real problem is with corporate advertisers! The sencond was finding out that in fact, groups like SF Beautiful believe that those corporate posters are illegal!
Hopefully, I'll have a print story on this topic soon.
