Translation/Interpretation/Caption Text:
Curator's note: This newspaper image captures important cultural information related to the evolution of the digital printing of Palestine posters. In this image we see a group of French citizens protesting a meeting between the French and Israeli foreign ministers on May 5, 2009. The woman in the front of the march is holding up a Palestine poster designed by the Brazilian artist Carlos Latuff, entitled, "Israel Boycott". The significance of this sighting is that it demonstrates empirically that the movement from centrally-printed political posters, including Palestine posters, which has been the operating practice for at least the past 100+ years, to localized digital printing in the past five years or so does not mean the end of ink-on-paper posters. Latuff does not print any of his designs; he exclusively puts them on line in digital form. Anyone is free to download the graphic and print it out as these French demonstrators clearly have done. What this confirms is that the printing of political posters has now shifted from taking place in one, centralized location and now happens at a location dictated by end users of the posters. DJW
