The Whole Present System [Bram de Does] SureyStones * positioning journalism as a

* positioning journalism as a wake-up call

It’s December of 1984 and Alvin Eisenman is writing with the latest Graphic Design Alumni directory from Yale

analyzing the cornucopia of cultural narratives they contain

NICHOLAS VILLIERS

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The Whole Present System [Bram de Does] SureyStones * positioning journalism as aPublished in 1972 by David R. Godine, this dramatic photogravure broadside features a poignant Civil War photograph of Union soldiers resting beneath a tree. Positioned below the image is an elegant block of text lettered by 38 year old Bram de Does. That aforementioned text is from a footnote from Walt Whitmans 1871 Democratic Vistas, in which he fiercely condemns the rigid military hierarchy of the United States army and navy as a "monstrous exotic"