Pocko Editions | Powersmile

Adam Lowe (b.1957, Oxford), is a curious mix of artist and curator who works between Madrid and London. Previous exhibitions have included Noise (University of Cambridge), and ‘Manga: Comic Strip books from Japan’- the first British show devoted to the history of Manga. His artworks have been exhibited around the world and were the subject of a major exhibition at the Russian State Musem, St. Petersburg in 2000.

The Blade
By Various
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Too Fat Cant Fly
By Yuko Kondo
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Re-think
By Various
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Giants
By Klaus Haapaniemi
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Powersmile

Privately collected by two German teenagers in the 70’s, the press-photos of US Senators and Gov

ernors in ‘Power-Smile’ are a miniature archive of a period when media-friendliness became the establishment’s key survival strategy, evidence of the then-emerging reality that a good PR shot is worth a thousands votes. These are yesterday’s men but the same rules apply today: whatever happens, just keep on smiling.

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