These images are from a fake PSA series created, as best as I can tell, by Brandon Knowlden. According to him,
It's no secret that the American culture is known for overindulgence. This
public service campaign dramatizes the effects of poor eating in a way we can
all understand.
It's interesting the way food and eating are linked to suicide and terrorism. Also, the two images with men make it clear they are fat, whereas from what we can see of the woman, there's no indication she's obese.
Thanks to Pitseleh S. for pointing these images out!
4 comments:
April 10, 2008 at 7:33 PM
as someone who used to have an eating disorder, i especially dislike the second one. the small quantity of candies suggests to me that all junk food, in any quantity, is bad, and eating it at all is wrong and shameful.
April 11, 2008 at 6:50 AM
in our culture we have this weird love/hate relationship with food - it's pushed on everyone EVERYWHERE! There are ads in bus shelters, magazines, television, etc telling us how much we need a certain food (usually junk food) product, and then we're simultaneously told that we can't eat it - it's wrong, or immoral, and fat is sinful...
This is so very very bad for our collective psyche... If we could just be free of the conflicting messages and see food for what it is, I think we wouldn't have so many problems with food related health issues, be they over or under eating
April 11, 2008 at 11:47 AM
I am just stunned.
April 11, 2008 at 2:41 PM
Much like the truth.com anti-smoking campaign (which I have long abhorred), these images portray a very facile sort of bumper-sticker ideology that seeks to shock the viewer into a visceral reaction and yet fails utterly to engage them in any meaningful fashion. It is far more provocative, albeit disingenuous, to wage a "food = bad" and "thin = good" polemic than to produce a dialog about health, moderation, and responsibility.
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