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That first photo reminds me of the Gotham Public Works logo from the Batman universe: https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-L_2Oqwk1Gqs/TcauyYazjaI/AAAAAAAAAKo/zvTFtVSrLlI

That first photo reminds me of the Gotham Public Works logo from the Batman universe: https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-L_2Oqwk1Gqs/TcauyYazjaI/AAAAAAAAAKo/zvTFtVSrLlI/s400/gotham%2Bpublic%2Bworks%2Bpinball%2Btopper.jpg https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-L_2Oqwk1Gqs/TcauyYazjaI/AAAAAAAAA... I wonder if it was, perhaps, inspired by this famous photo?

jaclaz 9y ago
Or by this monument? http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-KZvDYmzdiLQ/VetenUM0abI/AAAAAAABg0g/rBps6UbAyKo/s1600/IMG_7269.JPG http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-KZvDYmzdiLQ/VetenUM0abI/AAAAAAABg0... Or by this Superman picture? http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-OhVeTMXYR9E/ThNZis3eEjI/AAAAAAAAABc/4PTSdagK4Rk/s1600/superman-in-the-heart-of-the-sun.jpg http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-OhVeTMXYR9E/ThNZis3eEjI/AAAAAAAAAB... More seriously it is a kind of iconography that was present in many countries in the 1900-1950 period (and even later in URSS and other communist countries) often in the form of propaganda posters, here is a Chinese one: http://magazine.utoronto.ca/leading-edge/labour-days-chinese-propaganda-posters-elizabeth-parke-scott-anderson/ http://magazine.utoronto.ca/leading-edge/labour-days-chinese... http://magazine.utoronto.ca/wp-content/gallery/chinese-propaganda-posters/f6199.jpg http://magazine.utoronto.ca/wp-content/gallery/chinese-propa... Here you can see how another of Hine's photos (the one with the guy on the crane hook) has been used iconographically (maybe): https://wolfsonianfiulibrary.wordpress.com/2015/04/18/overt-covert-miami-dade-college-students-use-wolfsonian-art-objects-to-decode-the-iconography-of-labor/ https://wolfsonianfiulibrary.wordpress.com/2015/04/18/overt-... Hugo Gellert and William Gropper are good examples of (US) artists that did similar drawing/paintings: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:William_Gropper_-_Construction_of_a_Dam_1939.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:William_Gropper_-_Co...

jaclaz 9y ago

Or by this monument? http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-KZvDYmzdiLQ/VetenUM0abI/AAAAAAABg0g/rBps6UbAyKo/s1600/IMG_7269.JPG http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-KZvDYmzdiLQ/VetenUM0abI/AAAAAAABg0... Or by this Superman picture? http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-OhVeTMXYR9E/ThNZis3eEjI/AAAAAAAAABc/4PTSdagK4Rk/s1600/superman-in-the-heart-of-the-sun.jpg http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-OhVeTMXYR9E/ThNZis3eEjI/AAAAAAAAAB... More seriously it is a kind of iconography that was present in many countries in the 1900-1950 period (and even later in URSS and other communist countries) often in the form of propaganda posters, here is a Chinese one: http://magazine.utoronto.ca/leading-edge/labour-days-chinese-propaganda-posters-elizabeth-parke-scott-anderson/ http://magazine.utoronto.ca/leading-edge/labour-days-chinese... http://magazine.utoronto.ca/wp-content/gallery/chinese-propaganda-posters/f6199.jpg http://magazine.utoronto.ca/wp-content/gallery/chinese-propa... Here you can see how another of Hine's photos (the one with the guy on the crane hook) has been used iconographically (maybe): https://wolfsonianfiulibrary.wordpress.com/2015/04/18/overt-covert-miami-dade-college-students-use-wolfsonian-art-objects-to-decode-the-iconography-of-labor/ https://wolfsonianfiulibrary.wordpress.com/2015/04/18/overt-... Hugo Gellert and William Gropper are good examples of (US) artists that did similar drawing/paintings: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:William_Gropper_-_Construction_of_a_Dam_1939.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:William_Gropper_-_Co...