One Year Later: The art of the collapse

By TODD PRUZAN Posted 7:00 PM 09/17/09 One Year Later

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Was it really just a year ago? Was it really just September of 2008 when several of our august financial institutions, already teetering, abruptly toppled, proving they weren't too big to fail? The whole world was wincing, but one group refused to panic: visual artists.

In the past 12 months, illustrators, photographers, graphic designers, even graffiti artists have addressed the unfolding economic calamity with anger, humor, bemusement, emotion -- and above all, striking imagery.

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The Art of the Collapse

Click through the gallery for visual commentary on this year's financial crisis.

Aaron Draplin - Will Staehle - BLU

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Todd Pruzan is the media and culture editor at DailyFinance. He's been an editor at Condé Nast's Portfolio, Details, Print, Blender, Inside.com, McSweeney's, Chicago, and Advertising Age, and has written for The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Believer, and other publications. As managing editor of Print, Todd helped earn two National Magazine Awards for General Excellence. He has been interviewed on NPR's "Morning Edition" and "All Things Considered," and is the author of The Clumsiest People in Europe (Bloomsbury, 2005).

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