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May 68: Street Posters from the Paris Rebellion

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Over the past week, we passed the Paul Smith store in Soho several times. Although we were fascinated by the display of powerful, colorful, graphic posters in the window, we never had our camera with us, and it was always either too early in the morning or too late at night to stop inside to get more information. Then this morning we received an email from Keep Calm Gallery with familiar images...
 
 
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It turns out that Paul Smith is selling a limited edition book (68 copies!) that contains hand screen printed reproductions of 40 original posters, and Keep Calm is selling a very limited number of printers proofs of the reproductions.


The book is for sale at several Paul Smith locations.

Keep Calm's printers proofs are for sale here (the posters -- quite a few of which are already sold out -- are also translated on the site, for those of us whose French is rusty).

(See the posters exhibited at The Hayward Gallery in London through May. And read more here.)

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Paul Smith is a day late (if not a dollar short). We've had our wall of posters up for a year now. Check 'em out...

http://tinyurl.com/68zyj4
http://tinyurl.com/6qettg


We have a few more we're willing to sell if anyones interested.

posted by southernwayfarer on 2008-05-21 20:33:47
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I love the poster with the rams that says retour a la normale. That has to be my favorite one.

posted by suzy8track on 2008-05-21 23:22:07
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I'm interested in these! Can I email you? Address? I'm at claire.brinberg@turner.com

Thanks!

posted by Clairebear on 2008-05-21 23:40:36
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These are beautiful. But I have to wonder whether the reproductions are authorized by the collective that originally produced the posters, l'Atelier Populaire.

According to the Hayward Gallery where they are being exhibited, “their rightful place is in centres of conflict, that is to say, in the streets and on the walls of the factories... This is why the Atelier Populaire has always refused to put them on sale.”

posted by Miriam on 2008-05-22 00:07:35
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These posters have been a pet topic of mine for some time. And thanks southernwayfarer for showing your Flickr photos; Information Libre is my favorite!!!

Here's some more: http://library.vicu.utoronto.ca/special/ParisPosters.htm

posted by swanroad on 2008-05-22 01:38:04
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funny that someone is charging for a poster made by a collective that refuses to sell the real ones. I can make up my mind if they are more or less pretentious than the keep calm posters. I think these will be more popular because Americans seem to love to have things in languages they can't actually speak.

posted by TheoJ on 2008-05-22 05:09:16
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southernwayfarer -- I might be interested in some of your extras of these. (And heck, I'd even be willing to pay money for them, no matter what TheoJ says!) Are the ones you might be willing to let go duplicates of the ones hanging on your wall, or different ones entirely? (You seem to have some that aren't included in the Hayward Gallery show/Orange Dot book -- any chance you'd let us know your "secret" source?)

If you have some you'd be willing to let go, please email me-

"pmp888" followed by the "at" sign, and then "hotmail" and then dot com.
Thanks.

posted by pilgrim on 2008-05-22 15:15:19
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