Ads Without Additives, On Hank Willis Thomas' "Unbranded" Series

Ads Without Additives, 2018 Guggenheim Fellow Hank Willis Thomas Makes Advertisements Speak Truth to Power at the Block Museum of Art - Newcity Art

Hank Willis Thomas, "Farewell Uncle Tom," 1971/2007, LightJet Print, 55 x 46 inches / Jack Shainman Gallery, New York.

“Ultimately, the question raised by Thomas’ work is not about whether advertisements influence us to consume—we know that they do—but how ads condition us how to regard ourselves and each other not as human beings, but as products. ”