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In some of her previous professional lives, she's written essays for the More by Janelle Grace. His new style attracted few takers until he was hired as a freelance to do book jackets for art director Joseph Montebello at Harper and Row.
These were economical solutions involving simple objects, like a feather taped to a white background and photographed as a still life. Finally, he was hired by Elektra Records and overnight the bulk of his work was music — he designed almost CD covers a year.
While these were a good way to pay the bills, he nevertheless wanted to work on even more meaningful content. The whole revisionist, nationalistic view was getting stronger and stronger. I wanted to offer a small counterpoint. Using his rent money Victore printed 3, two-colour posters that showed a vintage photograph of a Native American warrior whose noble visage he defaced in black marker pen to look like a skull. With a couple of volunteers, he illegally pasted about 2, copies on walls and scaffolds around New York.
He also obtained the addresses of Native American groups in the United States and Canada and mailed them tubes containing twenty posters each. In New York the police tore down as many posters as they could so as not to mar the celebration, yet enough remained intact on Columbus Day to have something of an impact.
And although it was a small return, he was encouraged. At the time Victore veered somewhat from commercial work towards an indie sensibility. It is axiomatic that new ideas rarely emerge from tried and true venues, so Victore hooked up with kindred renegades.
The money involved was negligible, but Victore was given a free hand with the posters, which he designed without a hint of pastiche. At the same time that he did posters for Macbeth , Twelfth Night , The Taming of the Shrew , and Romeo and Juliet , he produced Racism and had them posted together around town. Racism made an indelible impact on some, but Victore claims that the poster had much more recognition in professional competitions and design annuals to which he submitted than on the street.
Nevertheless, he was not deterred. The first two posters were done on his own, but accepting the adage about strength in numbers, Victore helped found a small alternative graphics collective along the lines of the Atelier Populair, the graphics arm of the French student uprising. Victore and five other young New York designers joined to fund, conceive and produce critical street graphics. Traditional Family Values was the first project done under the auspices of the group although entirely his own concept and was his third poster.
The Baby Bottle a. Teach Your Children Well , , argues that racist values are fed to children from an early age. Using a baby bottle was an apt symbol to suggest the matter-of-fact feeding of healthy and unhealthy ideas to children who accept any and all nourishment.
The poster, however, did not have the splash the group had hoped for. Nor did it grab the proverbial hearts and minds. So it was disbanded. At the age of nineteen he moved to New York City. As he reached his early 20s, he had already dropped out of two different colleges.
However, he began apprenticeship under the supervision of Paul Bacon, a noted book-jacket designer. Eventually, he took charge of his own education and career and strove to make his name as an independent designer and artist. The interesting thing about the poster is that it depicted Christopher Columbus in a negative light.
Over five thousand copies of the poster were distributed and hung around the city. He was a rebellious artist at heart and when he saw police removing these posters from the streets, it filled Victore with thrill.
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