The Street Art of Marshall Soules
Since the early 1980s I have been photographing - and writing about - street art and visual propaganda. I want to show how symbolic visual communication moves its viewers and persuades them to an argument or point-of-view. I have mainly focused on street art as the medium to explore, though I might have focused instead on television, movies, magazines, comics, the internet and other media where visual imagery plays an important role.
After all, persuasion and propaganda are performances, with actors, scripts and staging; lights and cameras, role the presses. Street art is also a performance, but with important differences I explore in this website.
There's a class war going on! Think of street art as news from the underclass - those people without the resources, connections, or worldviews to gain them access to corporate or mainstream media. While there's a lot of gibberish painted on city walls and urban furniture, there are moments of brilliance, stinging jibes, and profound social commentary, and hilarity. Let's see what we can find.
Read more or explore the site as you might wander through the streets of an unfamiliar city.