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Hara Kiri Magazine

Words
Dan Witchell
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Date
8 November 2010

In 1960, Georges Bernier and François Cavanna created the monthly satirical magazine Hara Kiri. The magazine, specifically the covers, are insane. Art directed by Fred Aristidès, it’s perverse, bizarre and still shocking fifty years on.

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Dan Witchell

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