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Lord Kitchener Wants You is a 1914 advertisement by Alfred Leete which was developed into a recruitment poster. It depicted Lord Kitchener, the British Secretary of State for War, above the words "WANTS YOU". Kitchener, wearing the cap of a British field marshal, stares and points at the viewer calling them to enlist in the British Army against ...
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The poster was designed by Alfred Leete. A similar poster used the words "YOUR COUNTRY NEEDS YOU".' Reason An often imitated image of high cultural and historical significance. Articles this image appears in Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener, Lord Kitchener Wants You, Big Brother (Nineteen Eighty-Four) Creator Alfred Leete
Original - British World War I recruitment poster featuring Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener, 1916. Reason Per the other day's nomination, this is a subject that does deserve a featured picture. Not quite the same iconic value as the original poster, but much higher technical specs and still pretty good encyclopedic value.
The title page of the "London Opinion" in 1914 for the first time printed images showing popular by its command posts in colonial wars War Minister Lord Kitchener. The advertising psychologically pioneering subject of fixing the viewer with the look in perspective enlarged outstretched forefinger was copied in several countries - the most ...
Lord Kitchener may refer to: Earl Kitchener , a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener (1850–1916), senior British Army officer, colonial administrator, and popular military hero
The celebrated poster of autumn 1914 was based on an image of Lord Kitchener by Alfred Leete. [14] The poster campaign itself was in the hands of the Parliamentary Recruitment Committee . Le Bas and his colleague Eric Field from the Caxton Advertising Agency were also creative initiators in the Daddy, what did you do in the Great War? poster ...