Jamie Reid archive
Record status
Individual type · partial
Period
Late 1970s
During the punk and post-punk period of 1976 to 1984, it was fundamental to wear your allegiances, political or musical, on your lapel in the form of the button badge.
Better Badges, run by Joly McFie, was the small business leader in manufacture of punk buttons, of which this is an example. Jamie Reid used McFie's process cameras to produce artwork for single sleeves for the Sex Pistols, which were subsequently turned into badges by McFie. This badge relates to the fifth single released by the Sex Pistols, No One Is Innocent , released after singer Johnny Rotten left the band in 1978, to be replaced by Ronnie Biggs, a criminal involved in the Great Train Robbery of 1963.
Jamie Reid's cut-and-paste aesthetic developed from his interest in radical politics. His artistic style developed while at art college in Croydon, where he was influenced by the ideas of the avant-garde political group, the Situationist International.
Evidence at a glance
- Linked sources
- 1
- Photograph views
- 1
- Catalogue references
- 0
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Physical characteristics
- Dimensions
- Diameter 5.5 cm
- Materials and techniques
- Printed paper and plastic film pressed on to metal pin back.
Technical characteristics
- Place recorded
- London
Identification
- Candidate id
- vam-O1152757
- Museum object number
- S.926-1990
- Source note
- Facts transcribed from the linked single-object source. Wider type attribution and authenticity have not been independently verified.
Catalogue references
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