By most accounts, the best-selling poster of all time is the iconic 1976 image of Farrah Fawcett in a red swimsuit. The poster, which features the actress and model at age 29 in a red one-piece bathing suit, sold over 12 million copies. This image quickly became a cultural phenomenon and is considered a defining piece of 1970s pop culture.
Interestingly,
I was at the height of my poster-posting era at the same time, but I did not
purchase a Farrah Fawcett poster. I stuck with more attainable things in my
array of posters: artwork from record albums, M.C. Escher prints, and random
photographs I liked.
Years
later, a friend of mine found a sexy life-size cut-out of Salma Hayek (a solid
crush of mine) and gave it to me. I really wanted to put Salma in the living
room, but my wife said Salma would have to stay in the garage. I kept her
there, along with my carpentry tools and stacks of building materials, for
several years.
I am
sharing the Farrah Fawcett poster along with something from my 1970s stuff and
a picture of Salma Hayek for reference.
—Mitchell Hegman
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