I ran into this over on the Information Clearinghouse site, a place I often go for news. This is part of an ad campaign being run in South Africa for the History Channel; other images in the series feature the war in Iraq and, perhaps most poignantly, demographic changes in Britain. Since I seldom post art-related material on this blog, I thought I’d take this opportunity.
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Wow, pretty shocking for Ogilvy, an “edgy” ad firm, but usually not this edgy! They’re practically lefty political posters (except the UK one, which seems open to a deeply reactionary interpretation….)
I guess these are fakes. Pretty clean and slick job. I wonder if the statistics are real….
What do you mean “these are fakes”? not made by Ogilvy? Not actual photographs?
I read that they are not ads made by Ogilvy or for the History Channel (and it appears the site they were pulled from has taken them down). I have no idea if the photos are fake or photoshop-ed, maybe, maybe not? I also have no idea if the numbers are accurate. Of course I wouldn’t have known these things if they were actual adverts for History Channel either!