The King Kong movie poster was originally created in 1933 by a Chinese born American actor, Keye Luke. I believe the King Kong poster was used to help promote the movie, it was created to help sell tickets, to get customers from the public rolling in to view the classic monster/adventure film directed and produced by Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack.
"JOIN, OR DIE.''
A woodcut showing a snake cut onto eighths with each segment labelled with the initials of one of the thirteen American colonies or region. This, "Join, Or Die, a well known political cartoon created by Benjamin Franklin in 1754. From doing my research about this piece I believe this cartoon was created and used to communicate with the American colonies that they must unite if they wish to successfully fight the British for independence.
"GUERRILLERO HEROICO"
A worldwide symbol of revolution and rebellion in the 20th century, the Guerrillero Heroico is one of the most famous posters in the world. A portrait of Che Guevara, a Argentine Marxist revolutionary physician, author, guerilla leader, diplomat, and military theorist. A major figure of the Cuban revolution. The photograph was originally taken by a Cuban photographer, Alberto Diaz Gutierrez or also known as Alberto Korda in 1960 at a memorial service for the victims of the La Courtine explosion that happened in Havana, Cuba. Later the image was created and reproduced to be used as model for a colour poster by an Irish painter Jimi Fitzpatrick in 1968.
I believe Fitzpatrick reproduced this photograph into a poster because he felt the need that the image had to come out or Che Guevara would not be commemorated otherwise, he would go to where heroes go, which is usually into anonymity.
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