LIFE IS A MISSION

life is a poetic joke. irony is the punchline

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Serial Mom, dir. John Waters, 1994

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Patty Hearst (1988) dir. Paul Schrader

[the-penny-dreadfuls]

This is a celebratory “Welcome Home” pin for the return of kidnap victim, Patty Hearst. In 1974, Patricia “Patty” Hearst, grand-daughter to the famous publisher, William Randolph Hearst, was kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army. After being beaten and dragged out of her California apartment, she was held captive for up to nineteen months. During that time of isolation, Hearst claimed that she had been abused and then brainwashed into believing their cause. She took on the new moniker of Tania and participated in several crimes committed in the SLA’s name. These crimes would land her on the FBI’s Most Wanted list.

In September of 1975, Hearst was arrested on charges of bank robbery. The following year she sentenced to thirty-five years in prison. That sentence would be decreased to seven years. She was released from prison in 1979.

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[lornebair]

Sneak preview from our fall catalog — Patty Hearst, aka “Tania,” immortalized forever before a backdrop of the Symbionese Liberation Army’s 7-headed snake. A rare photo-offset poster, ca. 1975.

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The Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo 45RPM/7" cover, 1976

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Patty’s Lying shirt, circa 1970s

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Aus der Froschperspektive (From a Frog’s Perspective) - Scherl’s Magazin, issue 8, 1932. Photo: Fotoaktuell. Saxon State and University Library Dresden (SLUB).

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Men laying under cherry blossoms. From the photobook ‘Kyo no Miyako’, Japan, 1960-70

by Seiryu Inoue

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Isolation by Chloe Elizabeth

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