Reply #80: My answer for you is this

[krkaufman]

My 16-year-old nephew is a sports geek, and so I assume that he stumbled across the WWI image in one of the many sports discussion forums that he frequents -- as I'd be bloody astonished that he made the link between the two, himself. (He's dang smart, but he's not exactly a photography, art or history buff.) I'm still waiting to hear back from him as to exactly how/where he came across it; in the meantime, I've only come across one other website highlighting the WWI poster, causing my curiosity to grow.

I'm not sure how my nephew forwarding the image to me was "convenient", in that he only forwarded the image, sans links, and so I had to do some googling to verify it wasn't some recently manufactured image. And it *was* coincidental, in that it fell out of a separate, unrelated email discussion regarding a (supposedly) satirical piece on LeBron James, in reply to a comment by me:

3/26 8:45pm - ME: But I was *really* thinking the article was going to be about the Vogue magazine brouhaha, where some are saying it was somehow racially insensitive.


LeBron James Vogue Cover Criticized For "Perpetuating Racial Stereotypes"

3/26 10:33pm - NEPHEW: Perhaps related to this WWI propaganda: (image embedded)

3/26 11:40pm - ME: Wow! That's a lot more plausible than the generic "King Kong" stuff being thrown around in that article. I don't see how they couldn't have been doing a recreation of that poster, given the similarities. Thanks for forwarding, (name removed). Where'd ya find it?

That was the extent of our discussion on the matter. I've no idea what your motivations are for trying to cast my sourcing and publishing of the propaganda image as some malevolent conspiracy, as all I was trying to do was provide background information on the "controversy" that became available to me.

The similarity between the two images makes it obvious to me that the WW I poster was Liebowitz's inspiration for the Vogue cover photo. If you don't see or can't admit that, there's nothing I can do to help.