Pictures of Persuasion: An Exhibition of Vintage Hong Kong Travel Posters

Description

The exhibition offers a wealth of art, history, design, and popular culture for visitors, who can get a glimpse into the evolving mid-century commercial art and the visual languages of Western modernism, the diverse styles in promoting Hong Kong as a tourist destination by the Hong Kong Tourist Association, and the changing symbols representing the city.

The travel posters on show lend a valuable perspective on Hong Kong’s image in the West during the city’s late colonial period, forming a collective memory of Hongkongers and the city’s rich cultural heritage.