Friday, October 13, 2006

Photography can do the job.


It is not always necesary to go to drawings or paintings to portray the unreal. Photography often can do the job. And sometimes it can do the job better. Putting a sign like this into a scene before it is photographed is easy enough. Or it is possible to superimpose a sign like this over a photograph after it has been taken. This ad effectively brings home the point that the arts do need support over and above any admission fees that may be charged. Compton Advertising created it, one in a series, for the Business Committee for the Arts, Inc. Art director and designer: Rupert R. Witalis. Copywriter: John D. Burke.