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I want you

Medium computer printing
Dimensions 1000/580mm
Year 1979

About this work

"I Want You," a poster inspired by British Secretary of War Horatio Kitchener's famous 1914 appeal to join the army, spawned numerous imitators, including perhaps the most famous American poster by James Flagg from 1917. All of them encouraged people to take part in wars. I decided to reverse the poster's intentions 180 degrees: "Daddy, your child needs you."