Public Image

Public image may refer to:

  • Public relations, maintaining a desirable public image for high-profile people and organizations
  • Public Image Ltd, a post-punk English musical group, with lead-singer John Lydon of the Sex Pistols
  • Public Image (album), the debut album by Public Image Ltd
  • Public Image (song), a song by Public Image Ltd
  • Public image clothing, a clothing brand with a distinctive silhouette-with-sunglasses logo that was popular in the 1980s
  • The Public Image, a novel by Muriel Spark

Famous quotes containing the words public and/or image:

    “Nobody seriously questions the principle that it is the function of mass culture to maintain public morale, and certainly nobody in the mass audience objects to having his morale maintained.”
    —Robert Warshow (1917–1955)

    “The hero was distinguished by his achievement; the celebrity by his image or trademark. The hero created himself; the celebrity is created by the media. The hero was a big man; the celebrity is a big name.”
    —Daniel J. Boorstin (b. 1914)