The latest riff on Alexandr Rodchenko's original--this one from the Belarusian political art collective Project Antibrainwash, which I saw at EFA Project Space back in March:
"Don't Be Silent, 2011. Downloadable protest poster (36: x 48"). The text along the bottom reads: "Silence is consent."
Rodchenko's original:
Plakat Alexander Rodchenko "Books". The Board for the Leningrad branch of the State publishing house «Gosizdat». 1924 Reproduction Private collection © DACS 2008 © Rodchenko archives.
This image is appropriated time and again, most recently by the band Franz Ferdinand, and before that by the Dutch punk band, The Ex. And not least, by my wife as her Facebook profile pic:
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