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SOS Save Oxford Street [Sydney]

c1982. Colour screenprint, 83.8 x 58.8cm. Repaired minor tears, creases, crazing. Linen-backed.

Text continues “Acknowledgment: Stenberg Bros. MaC: 519 7537.” On October 25, 1982, an article appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald entitled “The threat to Oxford Street” by architect John Haskell, followed by a letter to the editor entitled “SOS (Save Oxford Street)”, both calling for consideration of the street’s unique architecture during a period of redevelopment.

This image is after the poster for the 1928 Soviet film Odinnadstaty (The Eleventh) by the Stenberg Brothers. Ref: SMH, 25.10.1982, 9.11.1982; MoMA.

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Item #CL197-151

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