Gerald Holtom's rarely exhibited original sketches for the peace symbol will go on view this March at the Imperial War Museum in London. Peace sign badges (courtesy ...
Baby Boomers may recall it through a swirl of tear gas, scrawled on walls, on signs in marches and silent sit-ins, or on the helmet covers of weary Vietnam soldiers. The peace sign, which turns 50 in ...
Jim Marshall photographed the spread of the peace sign between 1961 and 1968, with his images now published for the first time by Reel Art Press. Cover of Jim Marshall: Peace (courtesy Reel Art Press) ...
WILKES-BARRE — Sophie Kurbanov busily worked on her personal peace symbol poster that she intends to hang on her bedroom wall. Kurbanov, 10, is one of 20 children attending this week’s Peace Camp at ...
In 1945, an estimated 340,000 people died when the United States dropped nuclear bombs on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan. After those attacks, other countries around the world began ...
Jean Jullien had just begun his vacation when he heard on the radio about the terrorist attacks in his native France that killed more than 120 people on Friday. While others around the world struggled ...
On the 21st February 1958, Gerald Holtom unveiled his design for the first London to Aldermaston march which mobilised thousands against Britain's production of the atom bomb. Now universally ...
The time is right, Alan Roe of Iowa City believes, to contemplate peace. With the help of a talented chainsaw artist, Roe now has a 22-foot tall likeness of a human arm raised skyward, brandishing the ...
Jean Jullien tells THR how his spontaneous reaction to the attacks was to draw a message of peace and solidarity. By Alex Ritman U.K. Correspondent One of the overriding images to emerge from the ...
A peace sign featuring the Eiffel Tower designed by a French artist has gone viral as a symbol of support for Paris in the wake of terrorist attacks. In the wake of ...
In the wake of Friday night’s Paris attacks, which left at least 128 people dead in six incidents around the city, one poignant sketch began circulating social media to honor the victims. The symbol, ...