History of Posters Part 1
- Tami
- Jan 1, 2020
- 1 min read
Posters were one of the earliest form of advertising and began to develop as a medium for visual communication in the early 19th century. First scribbles go back to Egypt’s late Middle Kingdom. Homoerotic scribbles were also discovered on Thera at the Sanctuary of Apollo Karneios from 7th to 6th century B.C.
During the Roman Empire, messages could be written on great stone inscriptions, on wax tablets, on papyrus scrolls and trade accounts could be scratched on broken pots. The Romans used graffiti for advertising various things, Romans liked to scrawl their jokes, political opinions, pleas, and existential ramblings on the walls of communal and private buildings.
Ancient Roman wall is a site where different voices in Latin pronounced their ails and problems; confessed love or engaged in advertising. They also used graffiti to advertise houses for rent, political campaigns, records of debts, prostitutes would write their adverts, and other everyday businesses were also written in this form. In ancient times they were not observed as acts of vandalism but as a self-expression of citizens and thus graffiti were not prohibited. They were not referred to as graffiti though, but as writings and drawings, showing that they were looked upon as something similar to other forms of expression.
I feel like this part of history is relevant to the origins of posters because it shows the use of a surface to try and convey messages and different meanings.
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