1001 Movie Posters: Designs of the Times, released last year, is described by its publisher as “the most comprehensive collection of movie posters ever published,” and it lives up to that claim. Many of the 1,001 posters are full-page images, and all are beautifully reproduced in vibrant colour on matte paper.
With such an extensive selection, and more than 600 pages, the most iconic film posters—such as Metropolis (the rare export version), Frankenstein (the first example of a teaser poster), and The Man with the Golden Arm (designed by Saul Bass)—are all included. Editor Tony Nourmand is the founder of Reel Art Press, publishers of this and other books on the art of film.
Although 1001 Movie Posters features captions and credits for many of its images, and an introduction by cultural historian Christopher Frayling, it isn’t a narrative history of the film poster. Gregory J. Edwards wrote such a book, The International Film Poster, forty years ago, though it has far fewer illustrations. The bibliography in 1001 Movie Posters is also much more extensive.
The most comprehensive general surveys of poster history are The Poster by Alan Weill and Posters by Elizabeth E. Guffey. History of the Poster by Josef and Shizuko Müller-Brockmann—published in a single English, French (Histoire de l’affiche), and German (Geschichte des Plakates) edition—was the first graphic-design book on the history of the poster.
With such an extensive selection, and more than 600 pages, the most iconic film posters—such as Metropolis (the rare export version), Frankenstein (the first example of a teaser poster), and The Man with the Golden Arm (designed by Saul Bass)—are all included. Editor Tony Nourmand is the founder of Reel Art Press, publishers of this and other books on the art of film.
Although 1001 Movie Posters features captions and credits for many of its images, and an introduction by cultural historian Christopher Frayling, it isn’t a narrative history of the film poster. Gregory J. Edwards wrote such a book, The International Film Poster, forty years ago, though it has far fewer illustrations. The bibliography in 1001 Movie Posters is also much more extensive.
The most comprehensive general surveys of poster history are The Poster by Alan Weill and Posters by Elizabeth E. Guffey. History of the Poster by Josef and Shizuko Müller-Brockmann—published in a single English, French (Histoire de l’affiche), and German (Geschichte des Plakates) edition—was the first graphic-design book on the history of the poster.