The celebrity of the Sacred Bleeding Host of Dijon prompted artists to turn out souvenir images; several are in the show.
Although his images are instantly recognizable, it was only this year that Petit (whom one contemporary critic called France's "best-known unknown photographer") began to gain recognition as more than a producer of souvenir images.
A video clip posted on YouTube early Friday by a video blogger in Benghazi begins with images of a dazed Colonel Qaddafi on the ground, before his captors picked him up and placed him on the hood of a pickup truck, perhaps so that they could pose with him for souvenir images.
Although the militia's commander, Faraj Swehli, initially claimed that the journalists were spies, the only evidence he produced were souvenir images of them firing guns they had posted on Facebook, and Libyan government documents the men said they found while reporting from the ruined compound of Colonel Qaddafi's son Muatassim.
At the end of a revolution against the Qaddafi family's rule that was, in part, propelled by video of protests and repression recorded on cellphones and distributed through social media, Reuters has posted graphic footage of Libyans crowding around the bodies of Colonel Qaddafi and Muatassim Qaddafi, eagerly capturing souvenir images of the two corpses.
In 2007, to mark its 50th year in the United States, Kikkoman issued a gold-capped version, and the company has also given souvenir bottles, bearing the image of Mickey Mouse, to groups of schoolchildren visiting the factory.
A souvenir mug bearing an image of a bright yellow taxi and the words "I ♥New York" was among the mementoes they intended to take back to their seven-room Tudor-style house outside Milwaukee.
On August 31 , 1980 four hundred and forty-eight days after the Pope left Poland for Rome, at the Lenin Shipyard, in Gdan´sk, an electrician named Lech Walesa signed the agreement (his enormous souvenir pen bore the image of John Paul II) that created Solidarity, the first legal and independent union in the Soviet empire.
Market stalls sell Assad souvenirs; pendants featuring images of the President and his family next to bracelets of President Assad with his vital ally, Hasan Nasrallah, the leader of the Lebanese Shia militia Hezbollah.
Don't cut up magazines that don't belong to you, and don't use images, souvenirs, or materials (glue, stickers, pencil crayons) that aren't yours unless you've asked the owner.
