Sexism and Racism in Advertising

I began collecting advertising images as a way to raise awareness among students in my Anthropology of Sex and Gender class at Reed College about the pervasive sexism and racism of public culture in the U.S. Images included in the archive are largely taken from mainstream print materials or websites, that is, the kind of media you might see linked to a major web portal, in a doctor's office, or on someone's coffee table. The collection is keyword searchable and includes over 800 images grouped in thematic 'galleries'.

Visions of Value: Images of Economics and Development in Business and Finance Advertising

This collection of advertising images complements the one on Sexism and Racism in Advertising. These ads from mainstream finance and business magazines, such as The Economist, Fortune, and Money, provide one window into the more backgrounded world of profit seekers behind consumer goods marketing. The collection is keyword searchable and includes over 1300 images grouped in thematic 'galleries'.

Rent Collection Courtyard

Allows you to scroll through and interact with the 1966 socialist realist exhibit of life-size clay sculptures portraying exploited peasants bringing their grain rents in for collection by their brutal landlord. The exhibit was housed in Beijing during the Cultural Revolution.

Wrath of the Serfs

Online image archive of the original exhibit program for "The Wrath of the Serfs,". Modeled on previous exhibits like "Rent Collection Courtyard, this life-size clay sculpture exhibit was displayed in Lhasa in the 1970s, but it had been commissioned in the early 1970s as a traveling exhibit. It represented vignettes of brutal exploitation of Tibetan "serfs" by "the big three", Tibetan aristocracy, government and monasteries, and was based narratives elicited from 100 "liberated serfs" by a team of Chinese and Tibetan artists sent from Beijing.