Existing comment:
Roger Brown,
The Jim and Tammy Show, 1987
Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker were televangelist superstars who rose to fame in the 1970s. By 1987, however, when Chicago artist Roger Brown created this image, their evangelical empire was crumbling amid sex and embezzlement scandals. Positioning the Bakkers on what appears to be a theater or television stage, Brown conveys the message that the coiffed and makeup-caked couple had become the stars of a personal, less-than-godly soap opera. |