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One of the first revolutionary posters aside from the Ayatollah's portraits was produced soon after the Black Friday Massacre in Zhaleh Square on September 8, 1978. In its simplicity and directness, in its color and imagery, this is one of the greatest examples of political art in the 20th century. Against a black background are laid out the bodies of eight demonstrators wrapped in their white shrouds... The designer [Esmail Shishehgaran] was so courageous that he put his name on the bottom of the poster in both English and Persian, although it was only October 1978 and the outcome of the Revolution was still in the balance.

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Stirring a nation
Symbols of the 1979 revolution
September 3, 2001
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From Staging a Revolution : The Art of Persuasion in the Islamic Republic of Iran

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