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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1998
Page
9
The article outlines how posters started as black and white word heavy notices used to advertise or inform. About a century ago printing advances enabled large bright color posters at low cost and with no competing media, making posters highly attention grabbing then and now.
The National Museum of American Art exhibit Posters American Style in Washington, DC highlights early color posters selling not just bikes but the idea of freedom to travel. The show runs in DC through Aug 9 then travels to West Palm Beach Santa Barbara and Oakland with details online.
A quick look at posters shows how they announce arrivals in the 1920s and still today. Posters turn ideas into calls to action and sell products or information in a single wink. The 1897 poster advertised a new type of camera.
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