Begin forwarded message:
From: Suleiman Mansour
Date: October 3, 2011 11:31:30 AM EDT
To: Dan Walsh
Subject: Re: Kamal Boulatta?
Yes it is his stile
On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 6:58 AM, Dan Walsh wrote:
--
Best Regards
Suleiman Mansour
00972 545585428
00972 597509957
Question from the Palestine Poster Project Archives...
Inbox
X
Reply
Dan Walsh to webmaster, bcc: nationaloffice
show details 7:42 PM (7 hours ago)
http://gallery.rsp.org.au/main.php?g2_itemId=2077
Hello,
I am the archivist of the PPPA:
http://www.palestineposterproject.org/
I would like to correspond with John Percy about his collection of Palestine posters. If you know John would you be so kind as to forward this email to him.
in solidarity,
Dan Walsh
Reply
Forward
Reply
John Percy to me
show details 2:45 AM (21 minutes ago)
Hi Dan,
Yes, I've had a brief look at the Palestine Poster Project Archives site, and it looks very impressive. You'd be very welcome to add my images to your site.
Most of those posters in the RSP gallery are in my collection. I've been involved in collecting political posters since my early days in the campaign against the war in Vietnam in 1965, as a sideline to my political activity. I was involved in producing many of the posters in the 60s and 70s, and the collection just began by accident, and I was a bit of a hoarder. At different stages over the last few decades I've made a more conscious effort to collect posters, on and off. A friend of mine who's a librarian and also a bit of a collector made a project of digitalising his, mine and another guy's, and doing it as a thesis for a master's degree.
I've got about 2000 political posters now. I've mainly made use of the Vietnam posters, and they've also been used several times by one of the galleries/museums in Sydney ten years ago. Last year I used them in conjunction with an all-day seminar on the Vietnam war in Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne and Perth.
I'm still sort of collecting, as I come by posters. Including Palestine posters, and there are some I'm sure that haven't been digitalised yet. That would take a bit of extra work to digitalise them and add them to the collection.
I'd have to do a bit of work remembering or asking around about the details of the posters in my collection, and in some cases details will be unknown. But I hope you'd be willing to add the information bit by bit as I dig it up.
In solidarity,
John
- Show quoted text -
Reply
Forward
Reply
Dan Walsh to John
show details 2:55 AM (11 minutes ago)
John~
You have made my day! Would you believe that I stayed up (it is almost 3am here) hoping you would respond in the positive. Its true. But part of that stems from the fact several Palestinian poster artist who do an enormous amount of work on the PPPA (finding/scanning/collecting/translating/promoting) went wild when I sent them the RSP url of your collection. Many Palestinians see the PPPA as a national heritage site and a very committed cadre of artists has developed around it. Its all happy work. I will forward your email to them...they will be delighted because you have saved some very important artifacts of their history.
So funny that your colleague digitized the posters as part of his masters thesis...that is how the PPPA started. I am still a graduate student at Georgetown University and I will upload my masters thesis (which is dedicated to the Palestine poster) sometime later this semester.
I will have questions for you, for sure but I will put no pressure on you timewise. Promise.
Q: Do you have any duplicate Palestine posters? If yes we might be able to arrange a mutually beneficial swap. More later.
Many, many thanks. I will send you email updates as your posters are added.
fraternally,
Dan