Street art or guerrilla advertising?
I spotted these photocopied pictures on Liverpool Lane, down near Crown Street, East Sydney – but they’ve been appearing on walls around the neighbourhood.

I assumed it was street art. But the more I think about it, the more I think it could be a kind of guerrilla cigarette advertising. They all feature these hip looking inner city people smoking, and the cigarettes are really the focus.

I love that street artists have immediately colonised them anyway. And whoever customised the second picture makes the same inference, turning the cigarette into a gun: “Bang!”

I’ve seen a few other similar photocopied 4-up portraits around Oxford St, presumably by the same person. Can’t remember if there were cigarettes or not though — will look closer next time.
Pat
23 Oct 10 at 3:00 pm
[...] We thought they were some kind of guerrilla advertising for the tobacco industry – all the ones we’d seen had cigarettes. [...]
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