If You Want To Be Spotted Do This!

Place Oceania: Australia
Accession Number ARTV02720
Collection type Art
Measurement Sheet: 50.6 cm x 36 cm
Object type Print
Physical description screenprint on paper
Maker Unknown
Camouflage Research Section, Department of Home Security
Place made Australia: Australian Capital Territory, Canberra
Date made 1939-1945
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

The first of four original designs by an artist with the Camouflage Research Section, Department of Home Security, Canberra for a series of posters titled 'If you want to be spotted do this!'. The designs show four different ways that soldiers could ensure that their camp will be spotted from the air by the enemy. This design depicts an aerial view of an army camp in the jungle with a big pile of light coloured crates left in a clearing clearly visible. The image is positioned in the upper two thirds while the title text printed in black ink is positioned beneath the image in the bottom third.

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