Flavorwire has compiled a "
quick visual history" of the American Library Association's "Read" posters featuring popular musicians (at the time). I'm unclear as to why Bowie is wearing a letterman's jacket in his shot, and that picture of a patriotic-shirt-wearing Britney Spears clutching the first
Harry Potter is just a
treasure, but my favorite has to be the blurry glimpse of Sting sporting mom hair and dressed up in what appears to be period garb, reading
Frankenstein in front of a castle.
Labels: Libraries, Posters
Flavorwire has compiled a "quick visual history" of the American Library Association's "Read" posters featuring popular musicians (at the time). I'm unclear as to why Bowie is wearing a letterman's jacket in his shot, and that picture of a patriotic-shirt-wearing Britney Spears clutching the first Harry Potter is just a treasure, but my favorite has to be the blurry glimpse of Sting sporting mom hair and dressed up in what appears to be period garb, reading Frankenstein in front of a castle.
4 Comments:
Only Sting, Elvis, and Yo-Yo Ma actually look like they may have been reading. Maybe REM, too; they kind of look like they're thinking, "Okay, you've pulled us from our books; what do you want?"
9:45 AM
Are you saying you don't hold your books while doing weird ballet-style leaps, like Bowie's picture?
...whyever not?
9:49 AM
I know, freaky that I'm such a sloth and generally sit when I read. :-|
9:52 AM
Laaaazy...
10:06 AM
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