Miami Beach, FL – November 14, 2014 – The Wolfsonian was a packed house on Friday night as a cultured crowd came out to catch an intriguing conversation with Dexter Filkins and Micky Wolfson, Jr. who discussed one of the museums exhibitions, Pose and Propaganda: Political Posters from the Contemporary Middle East and Afghanistan. The physical poses of individuals in images are rendered to communicate culturally specific meanings readily understood by their intended audiences. Using contemporary political posters from the collection of Pulitzer Prize-winning war correspondent Dexter Filkins, this installation considers a range of bodily gestures and expressions deployed to influence the values viewers bring to bear on this widely popular medium, and includes posters from The Wolfsonian’s collection to illustrate the geographic and temporal range of this graphic strategy. Following the conversation guests mixed and mingled throughout the gallery browsing the moving works of Pose and Propaganda.

Micky Wolfson

Micky Wolfson & Cesar Trasobares

Iran Issa Khan & Micky Wolfson

Iran Issa Khan & Silvia Barisione

Sharon Misdea, Dexter Filkins, & Micky Wolfson

Dexter Filkins & Micky Wolfson

Dexter Filkins

Casey Steadman, Dexter Filkins, & Sharon Misdea

Silvia Barisione, Regina Bailey, Ian Rand, & Iran Issa Khan 

Mehmet Bayraktar, Nina Herrick, & Susan Hakkaraien

Dexter Filkins & Heather Cook

Emily Gresham & Jeri Wolfson

Francis Luca, Zoila & Roberto Datorre

Kanet Krop, Larry Davis, & Dexter Filkins

Andrea Gollin & Lea Nickless

Suzi Ruddcohen & Ian Rand

Federico Alvarez De Toledo, Sergio Piazza, Joshua Dunkelman, & Justin Clinger

Ray Marchman & Sharon Misdea

Zack Belil, Iran Issa Khan, & Shawn Clarke

Shawn Clarke & Zack Belil

Aura Reinhardt & Jessica Kennedy

Antoni Miralda, Cathy Byrd, & Cesar Trasobares

Lidu Yi, Philip Hu, & Ena Marrero