In the mood for some poster love on this Valentine’s Day? Nobody does it better than the French — especially these bad boys by man, Boris Grinsson! (Eatbrie)
Category Archives: 1950s posters
Noir Crazy!
It’s that time of year to get crazy — er, make that Gun Crazy — as Peggy Cummins, the star of the 1950 classic noir movie, will be making a special appearance at Eddie Muller’s annual San Francisco Film Noir Festival, which runs from January 25 to February 3. (posters courtesy of Wrong Side of the Art)
When Monsters Met Maidens…
From December 14-18, 2012, The Swann Auction Galleries presents Monsters and Maidens: A Film Poster Collection, featuring some of the darnedest damsels in distress designs that any movie poster lover has seen, including works by (clockwise from top left): Roger Soubie, Boris Grinsson, Alfredo Capitani, and Anselmo Ballester. (MOPO)
Piovano Paradiso!
Mario Piovano, one of the more unsung stylists of Italian movie poster design, has come up with some real beauties for his work done under the Paradiso Studio label. (Posterit)
It’s So Major!
If you’re looking for holiday presents, you can stock up at EMoviePoster’s December 2012 Mini/Major Auction where there’s something for everyone — with parts II and III ending Tuesday and Thursday this week!
Martinati Straight Up!
Heritage Auctions is putting on another one of their Movie Poster Signature Auctions Nov. 29-30 in Dallas, Texas this week — and I’m pretty high on their lots from Italian master, Luigi Martinati (of the infamous BCM Studio – aka Ballester Capitani Martinati) — who created all the elegant manifestos below.
Classy Belinsky
Constantin Belinsky, the Godfather of French B-movie action posters — and a frequent contributor to our beloved Kitchen Sink section — once started out with a very clean, elegant look for his posters as seen below in this early 1950s affiche.
However, possibly upon realizing that popular artists of the time such as Bernard Lancy, Henri Cerutti, and Herve Morvan had already perfected that look — he invented his own colorful style, thus moving onto bigger and bolder designs!
Fear No Poster
That Old Black Magic
Although not as well known as fellow Argentinean, Osvaldo Venturi, the artist known simply as Aniram did some similarly rich, deep designs for the Argentine movie theatre marquees, most notably Orson Welles’ Black Magic — which bears a remarkably similarity to “The Bloody Hand”-concept mentioned here from one-sheets by Anselmo Ballester and Saul Bass.
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