1989 Polish parliamentary election

High Noon, Tomasz Sarnecki for Solidarity, June 4, 1989 A 23-year-old design student took the most famous image of a lone sheriff, Gary Cooper in High Noon, and made two small changes: a ballot in his right hand, and a little Solidarity badge pinned above the marshal's star. Across the top runs the union's jagged red Solidarność lettering, and apart from the word on the ballot the only other words are the title and the polling date. Borrowing Hollywood was the point: a midday showdown framed as the moment to vote. Adopted as an official campaign poster, it went up on walls and lampposts across Poland and is now held by London's V&A among other collections.