A spoof packet of cigarettes called 'Hallo partner" with a skull as a logo, reminding that smoking causes death. Colour screen print, ca. 2000.
- Date:
- [2000?]
- Reference:
- 748976i
- Pictures
About this work
Description
Death greets the smoker as "partner". "Partner" as a form of address is said by the Oxford English dictionary to be "chiefly U.S. colloq.", i.e. death is here presented as American, reflecting the conspicuousness of American and Anglo-American tobacco brands. Cf. OED also s.v. "pardner"
Publication/Creation
[Berlin?] : [publisher not identified], [2000?]
Physical description
1 print : screen print, printed in black and yellow ; sheet 86 x 60 cm
Lettering
Hallo partner. VOP visual object production Zimmermanstr. 36 [or 38?] 1 Berlin 41
Creator/production credits
"VOP visual object production Zimmermanstr. 36 [or 38?] 1 Berlin 41": the agency responsible for the design?
Reference
Wellcome Collection 748976i
Type/Technique
Languages
Where to find it
Location Status Access Closed stores