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Joe Camel's Last Stop Art Print
by Kris Rasmusson
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Joe Camel's Last Stop art print by Kris Rasmusson. Our art prints are produced on acid-free papers using archival inks to guarantee that they last a lifetime without fading or loss of color. All art prints include a 1" white border around the image to allow for future framing and matting, if desired.
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Back in April of 1999 Congress passed the Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement' which included the prohibition of cigarette ads on billboards. Knowing... more
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Artist's Description
Back in April of 1999 Congress passed the "Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement' which included the prohibition of cigarette ads on billboards. Knowing that the days were numbered for 'Kitsch Photographer Jim' to troll the roads to document the end of an era, I aimed my radar at finding the ultimate cigarette ad billboard for the purpose of showing the diabolical absurdity of the ads. It had to be a Joe Camel ad...
Then one day, when I was driving back home after having lunch in East Town, my radar directed me to a billboard on Wealthy Street. I immediately saw the fortuitous significance of it being next to street signs that read "Wealthy Ney". The word 'ney' is a slang word that means 'no'. I thought about how people got sucked into the addicting drug of nicotine with the delusion that smoking will make them hip and happy only to find, often when it's too late, that the habit had cost them dearly.
Wealthy? Ney!
I returned a couple days later and took the sho...
About Kris Rasmusson
James Rasmusson is a resident of Holland Michigan who has been creating fine art photographs since the early 80�s. Jim�s photo-art is best known for themes that express the drama and majesty of nature. �I like to underscore the abstract and tease the mind. I am ever alert for juxtapositions that express irony, absurdity, and poignancy. I want people to feel both tension and resolution in my compositions.� Specializing in scenes from the Great Lakes region, the artist�s portfolios also include the Ozarks, Arizona and California, the Florida Keys, River Rouge, Chicago, �Suspended Amusements�, Nightscapes, Winterscapes, Ontario, and the Caribbean. The award-winning photographer�s work has appeared in many publications as...
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