Jamie Reid

Jamie Reid, born in 1947 is an English artist and anarchist with connections to the Situationists. His designs is about letters form cut out from newspapers and magazines in the style of a word heading, came close to defining the image of punk rock where he was best known for making a cover for the Sex Pistols album ‘‘Never Mind the Bollocks’’ and ‘‘Here's the Sex Pistols’’, and the singles "Anarchy in the UK" & ‘‘God Save The Queen".

This photograph of Queen Elizabeth II was told with an added safety pin through her nose and swastikas in her eyes, described by Sean O'Hagan of The Observer as "the single most iconic image of the punk era"), "Pretty Vacant" and "Holidays in the Sun".

My thought on this was that the sex pistol wanted to mock the queen in her early age. What is surprising about this picture is the subject. The queen should be respected and this image is disrespectful.

Jamie Reid uses the size and font for the word lettering from newspapers and magazines to cover the queen’s eyes and mouth. He scans the lettering and did it digitally.

The artist has used these materials and techniques to create this image to shock the audience and get their attention and also confuse them because the image appears to be dis respectful but the wording is respectful "GOD SAVE THE QUEEN".

This image communicates rebellion, confusion, shock, angry, lack of respect, but it also show the respect of wording. By covering the eyes and mouth it stops the queen from communicating and takes her power away.

I like this image because it uses different lettering to cover anywhere around it.