All posters in this collection are printable in high definition. Not developed or endorsed by the Library of Congress. No known restrictions on publication. Explore: kitchener horatio herbert kitchener For freedom, God, and honor -- in memory of Kitchener song. Eastward ho! Eric Field was identified as the copywriter and Caxton Advertising the agency for the various versions — Field had coined 'Your King and Country Need You' for the first recruitment advertising in newspapers the week that WWI broke out.
The influence of the Leete illustration of has lived on, as in this Economist cover from September , with US Treasury secretary Hank Paulson in the Kitchener pose:. Thatcher, Reagan, Trump — even Greta Thunberg — have all been photographed or portrayed in the Kitchener pose.
Leete went on to create the Father William figure for Younger's beers in the s and 'Mr York of York, Yorks' for Rowntree's Chocolate , star of the first British animated film commercial with synchronised sound. So, is Leete's London Opinion the best magazine cover in history?
Technically, no: it was according to a Kitchener biography done in a rush and cannot match the quality of many images, even from the Victorian era. The monthlies had much better production values in terms of their use of colour, plate-making and paper.
However, how may covers find themselves being imitated — for an item about the credit crunch — by the influential Economist almost a century later? If you have a view, send me an e-mail: tony [at] magforum. A magazine cover — recognised to this day as the Kitchener poster — published in is still inspiring magazines, prime ministers, actors, presidents and illustrators Picture Post with Leete's Kitchener image on 1 June Iron Man actor Robert Downey Jr makes the Kitchener pose GQ cover from December with environmental activist Greta Thunberg in the Kitchener pose.
B2B and Business. London Opinion — the most influential cover by Anthony Quinn London Opinion was one of the most influential magazines in the world. Yet, you have probably never heard of it: the reason being that it closed in when it was taken over by Men Only.
However, you will undoubtedly recognise this 'Your Country Needs You' Kitchener cover, from 5 September at the start of World War One, even if you have never actually seen it, because it has inspired posters and graphic designers around the world since.
The 'Kitchener poster' has proved to be incredibly powerful. To this day, prime ministers, film stars and presidents haven't really arrived until they've been pictured in that famous pointing Kitchener pose. Recruiting and Enlistment. War Loans and Bonds. During the early years of the war, poster design and distribution in Britain was organized by the War Propaganda Bureau run out of Wellington House in London.
Many of the designs and content of the posters produced during this period were decided internally without oversight from the British Parliament. From onward, the production of posters and propaganda was centralized through the British Government and, by , were run primarily by the British Ministry for Information.
All posters in this collection are printable in high definition. No known restrictions on publication. Explore: vintage advertisement Sacrifice for Your Country. Recruiting Posters No. Freedom or Communism. Viet Poster 3. The F. Schaefer Brewing Co.
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