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Flower power: Guns replaced with flowers in vintage war photos
12.15.2014
10:48 am
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Flower power: Guns replaced with flowers in vintage war photos

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It was poet Allen Ginsberg who came up with the term “Flower Power” in his essay “How to Make a March/Spectacle” when he suggested anti-Vietnam war protesters should hand out thousands of flowers to policemen, soldiers and politicians as a symbol of their passive resistance to conflict.

French artist and designer Mister Blick makes a similar anti-war statement with his collages of historic war photographs in which weapons are replaced with giant flowers, and bullets with colorful petals.
 
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H/T Vintage Everyday.
 

Posted by Paul Gallagher
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12.15.2014
10:48 am
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