I stumbled upon this example of a twist on visual and verbal rhetoric in class and decided it would be a good discussion for the blog. While this artist's taste is in question, it is interesting to see how such a horrific photograph can be manipulated into something of humor. Now, I'm not sure how many of us actually find this humorous, I certainly do not. But it was definitely the artist's intent to make light of the situation presented in the photograph.
The "Make a New Friend" tagline is also quite ironic. Coffee or a gun, if either were shoved in my face, I wouldn't look at it as an act of friendship. Needless to say, the whole ad is a sick joke... but a good manipulation of a historic photograph.
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