Communist kitsch

Soviet poster of the day! NICE!

Also an essay discussing the attraction of authoritarian art, and what it means that Americans today like it.

The Commissar Vanishes

Cool site from the Newseum with a bunch of different examples of Soviet photo editing. Mostly Trotsky of course. Somewhat marred by the use of present tense... makes it read like a freshman paper. But oh well, the photos are good.

Last paragraph has some ideas on a thing I've wondered: why the doctoring is sometimes so obvious:

Why do the communists do such a rough job retouching Soviet books and journals? Did they hope such eliminations will be noticed, and thus send an ominous warning?

Hmmm, could be!

AP picture "shows" soldier flipping bird

The latest in the wingnut/moonbat photoshop wars. Contrast with Soviet and other historical modifying of photography. Now people are more sophisticated, both in the techniques to edit photos or to detect the modification. But it's still just as effective if people only get the first photo and never see the debunking.

http://confederateyankee.mu.nu/archives/223905.php