Günther Kieser’s 1968 poster for the Berlin Jazz Festival featured a photograph of Martin Luther King, Jr. in profile, his body decorated with the horizontal stripes of the American flag and his head crowned by a dove with its wings trailing behind it. This design was accompanied by the phrase “Jazz! Not War.” That year, the world was reeling from numerous social and political events with global consequences. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy were both assassinated, the Tet Offensive marked an escalation of the Vietnam War, student riots in Paris led to a national strike, the Prague Spring in Czechoslovakia ended with the Soviet invasion of the country, and West German protestors challenged the lingering postwar influence of the far right. In 1977, Kieser revisited that original poster, updating it with the profile of an unknown Black man (some sources claim he was a performer in that year’s concert), the wings of a dove obscuring the upper half of his face. In this subtly illuminated image, the viewer is drawn to the figure’s mouth, painted with red lipstick and surmounted by a well-groomed mustache.