The New York Times · New York, New York · 29 June 1989

CP-1989-029

P.L.O. to Use Posters to Get Its Message Across

By ROBERT PEAR

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WASHINGTON, June 28 — In a novel move to improve its image in the United States, the Palestine Liberation Organization has hired an expert on graphic design to convey its message more effectively to the American people through political poster art. The expert, Daniel J.

Walsh, based in Alexandria, Va., has one of the world’s largest collections of Palestinian posters, including 4,000 to 5,000 first editions. He has been retained to disseminate such art at universities and art galleries around the country. He also plans to reprint some of the posters and sell them through bookstores and mail-order catalogues.

He confirmed today that he had a contract with the P.L.O., signed in March, when he was invited to the group’s headquarters in Tunis. But he declined to say how much he was being paid. ‘Oppositional Posters’ Mr.

Walsh, a 40-year-old veteran of the Peace Corps, is the proprietor of Liberation Graphics, a small company that distributes what he calls “oppositional posters” from the Soviet Union, Cuba, Nicaragua, El Salvador, South Africa and other countries. “The political myths surrounding the P.L.O. are susceptible to challenge and reversal,” Mr.

Walsh said in an interview in the tiny house that he uses as an office and workshop. “The political poster is a way to shatter taboos and debunk mythologies.” Since the founding of the P.L.O. more than two decades ago, Palestinians have recognized the poster as a medium for expressing their political values and goals. Mr.

Walsh says that Palestinian posters will speak to an American audience more directly and more effectively than P.L.O. leaders have been able to.

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