--- title: World Photo Review (edition B) (English poster distributed in Asia) url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/world-photo-review-b-english-1954/ description: A six-photograph news-style sheet under a red 'World Photo Review' masthead. Tagged by technique, with source and rights. section: Collection --- 1. [Home](https://propagandaarchive.org/) 2. [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) 3. World Photo Review (edition B) (English poster distributed in Asia) [![World Photo Review (edition B), 1954 US poster: A six-photograph news-style sheet under a red 'World Photo Review' masthead](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/world-photo-review-b-english-1954.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/world-photo-review-b-english-1954.jpg) # World Photo Review (edition B) (English poster distributed in Asia) A six-photograph news-style sheet under a red 'World Photo Review' masthead. Captioned pictures show a Syrian dam beside a Roman one, a new NATO Defense College commandant, 840 poplars in a Syrian reforestation project run by the Forest Service and FOA, a U.S. general presenting a $4,500 cheque to a Methodist minister to rebuild a church, and New York low-income apartment housing replacing a slum. The tell is card-stacking, a selection of favourable items, and transfer in the pairing of aid, NATO and charity. ## Propaganda techniques used in this poster [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) ## Text on the object Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` WORLD PHOTO REVIEW A MODERN DAM, located in Syria and an ancient dam built by the Romans (right), both for irrigation to make barren soil productive. NEW COMMANDANT of NATO Defense College in Paris, Air Marshall Darvall, Royal Air Force (right) meets officials. 840 POPLARS are growing on 1.2 hectare plot as part of Syrian Forest Service—FOA project for reforestation in rural Syria. U. S. GENERAL presents check for $4500, fund contributed by his officers and men, to Methodist Minister to rebuild his church. APARTMENT HOUSING development, built for low-income families in New York City, now replaces crowded slum area. (E) EXTRA B ``` [← A Frank Statement to Cigarette Smokers](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/frank-statement-1954/) [How Can You Improve Your Chickens? (Arabic poster distributed in Beirut) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/how-can-you-improve-your-chickens-arabic-beirut-1954/) ## More propaganda examples that use the same techniques - [Fragments of the Abydos king list from Ramesses II's temple, in the British Museum: rows of royal cartouches](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/abydos-king-list-ramesses-ii-temple-british-museum/) (New Kingdom Egypt · 0000 · Card stacking, Transfer) - [Behistun (Bisotun) rock relief and trilingual inscription of Darius I: the king, two attendants and the bound rebel leaders beneath the winged figure of Ahuramazda](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/behistun-relief-darius-and-rebels-521bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Card stacking, Name-calling, Testimonial). Content note: Shows bound captives before the king, and the inscription records the mutilation and public execution of rebel leaders, as the king's own account. - [Tomb of Darius I at Naqsh-e Rustam: the king in relief beside his inscription DNa, c. 490 BCE](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/dna-inscription-darius-i-naqsh-e-rustam-490bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Testimonial, Card stacking) - [Line drawing of the Great Kadesh battle relief on the walls of the Ramesseum, from Breasted's History of Egypt](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/kadesh-relief-ramesseum-breasted-drawing-1275bce/) (New Kingdom Egypt · 0000 · Card stacking, Transfer). Content note: A drawing of an Egyptian royal battle relief showing Hittite soldiers and horses killed and drowned, as the king's monument presented the battle; it is a one-sided image made by the winning side's own account. - [Persepolis, Apadana staircase relief: a figure with an animal from a procession of delegations, early fifth century BCE](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/persepolis-apadana-delegate-relief-500bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Card stacking, Manufactured consensus) - [Alabaster relief, Assyrian troops storming a citadel, from Nineveh (reign of Sennacherib)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/relief-sennacherib-storming-citadel-nineveh-704bce/) (Neo Assyrian Empire · 0000 · Card stacking). Content note: An Assyrian palace relief of troops storming a fortified city, with a file of figures below; Assyrian royal reliefs and texts record killing, mutilation and deportation, shown as carved, with the historical context and scholarly dispute on the regime page. - [Colour lithograph of the Latin text of the Res Gestae Divi Augusti on the wall of the temple of Roma and Augustus at Ancyra, with the heading in large letters (Perrot, Guillaume and Delbet, 1872)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/lithograph-res-gestae-ancyra-heading-0014/) (Roman Empire · 0014 · Card stacking, Glittering generalities) - [Silver denarius of Vespasian, reverse IVDAEA with a trophy of arms and a seated mourning woman](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/denarius-vespasian-judaea-capta-0070/) (Roman Empire · 0070 · Card stacking). Content note: A Roman victory coin showing a mourning female figure as the personification of the conquered province of Judaea after the Roman suppression of the Jewish revolt; shown as struck, with the historical context on the regime page.