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Wordless Ads Speak Volumes In ‘Unbranded’ Images Of Women

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Advertisements don't need any words to say a lot about a culture. In the run-up to the 2016 election — and the possibility of a white woman being nominated — Hank Willis Thomas has mounted a new exhibit, featuring women in print. It's called Unbranded: A Century of White Women, and it features images from mainstream commercial print advertisements from 1915 to today. Thomas said, "We can almost never tell what it's actually an ad for, because ads really aren't about the products. It's about what myths and generalizations we can attach, and the repetition of imagery of a certain type.

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