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It was made with the best intentions, but it’s making a lot of people angry. A German ad agency recently released an AIDS-awareness campaign about the dangers of unsafe sex—a message they chose to convey by producing graphic photos of Adolf Hitler, Saddam Hussein, and Josef Stalin each having intercourse with a woman. The tagline: “AIDS is a mass murderer.”
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Uwe Duettmann, who photographed the campaign for Das Comitee in Hamburg and who is represented by Stockland Martel, was in town last week, and we talked about the negative response the ads are getting. (A writer for Adweek called the campaign “disgusting,” though he also went on to make “führer” pun… You can read his commentary here.) Uwe is going to write me with his thoughts on the campaign, as well as how he executed it. (He cast the shoot using actors from the porn industry, for example.) Stay tuned…
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Controversial ads feature Hitler, Hussein, and Stalin
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It was made with the best intentions, but it’s making a lot of people angry. A German ad agency recently released an AIDS-awareness campaign about the dangers of unsafe sex—a message they chose to convey by producing graphic photos of Adolf Hitler, Saddam Hussein, and Josef Stalin each having intercourse with a woman. The tagline: “AIDS is a mass murderer.”
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Uwe Duettmann, who photographed the campaign for Das Comitee in Hamburg and who is represented by Stockland Martel, was in town last week, and we talked about the negative response the ads are getting. (A writer for Adweek called the campaign “disgusting,” though he also went on to make “führer” pun… You can read his commentary here.) Uwe is going to write me with his thoughts on the campaign, as well as how he executed it. (He cast the shoot using actors from the porn industry, for example.) Stay tuned…
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