Dead Kennedys artwork

While paging through a stack of newspapers and magazines I found in the cellar of a house in Parktown about to be demolished in 2011, I found the source for an image from Dead Kennedys’ iconic album ‘Give me convenience or give me death’.

The publications were all from 1952–1956 and included copies of Sunday Times, Farmers Weekly, Femina, Illustrated, The Star and Outspan. The one featuring the image was American magazine Collier’s from November 8, 1952. The image of a man’s face wrapped in barbed-wire is from an advert for Barbasol shaving cream.

The Dead Kennedys album was released in June 1987. The sleeve was designed by Winston Smith — more at his site.

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