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Posteritati Presents Fifty Years of Japanese Movie Posters |
Posteritati
Posteritati, named the best place to be reminded that all film art isn't on-screen” by The Village Voice, is one of the world’s premier dealers of vintage and contemporary movie art. If you need the movie poster that says ‘You, You, You.’ Posteritati is the place to start (New York Times Style Magazine, 2004). From the silent era to modern classics, the Posteritati gallery boasts a collection of over 11,000 original movie posters from 35 different countries, “a literal vault of old movie posters” (Lucky Magazine, 2001), searchable via iMac customer kiosks or online at www.posteritati.com.
In May 2008, Posteritati and Mark Batty Publisher announced the publication of Translating Hollywood, a new movie poster book culled from the Posteritati collection which shows the major role played by graphic design in move poster advertising and promotion around the world. Spanning decades of film history, Translating Hollywood examines posters from many films in a variety of styles. There are posters from classic films made by legendary directors, and some that are coveted collectibles. Also featured are works by such noted designers as Saul Bass. Later this year, look for The Art of the Modern Movie Poster, a 500+ page tome published by Chronicle Books, an exhaustive overview of post-war movie poster design.
The Posteritati gallery is located in downtown New York at 239 Centre Street between Broome and Grand Streets, directly across the street from the historic Police Building. The gallery is open Tuesday through Saturday from 11 am to 7 pm, Sunday from noon to 6 pm, and Monday by appointment.
About Japanese Posters
Movie posters have signified modernization in Japanese cities throughout the 20th Century. In the 1920s and 30s, Harold Lloyd or Louise Brooks smiling in front of the theaters were fashion models from America for Japanese “modern girls” and “modern boys.” After the war, Catherine Deneuve, Audrey Hepburn or The Beatles took their place. Shochiku studio’s movie posters in the 1930s (designed by Takashi Kohno) drew inspiration from such artistic influences as Soviet avant-garde and constructivism. The colors of post-war movie posters aroused the yearning of Japanese audiences recovering from the war, for the American way of life recorded in Technicolor.
Japanese movie posters have been outlets of artistic expression for filmmakers to express their personal visions of their work. Akira Kurosawa, who used to be a painter in the Proletarian Movement, drew posters for Dodeskaden (1970) and Kagemusha (1980) with crayons.
Daisuke Miyao (Film Historian)
Posteritati, named the best place to be reminded that all film art isn't on-screen” by The Village Voice, is one of the world’s premier dealers of vintage and contemporary movie art. If you need the movie poster that says ‘You, You, You.’ Posteritati is the place to start (New York Times Style Magazine, 2004). From the silent era to modern classics, the Posteritati gallery boasts a collection of over 11,000 original movie posters from 35 different countries, “a literal vault of old movie posters” (Lucky Magazine, 2001), searchable via iMac customer kiosks or online at www.posteritati.com.
In May 2008, Posteritati and Mark Batty Publisher announced the publication of Translating Hollywood, a new movie poster book culled from the Posteritati collection which shows the major role played by graphic design in move poster advertising and promotion around the world. Spanning decades of film history, Translating Hollywood examines posters from many films in a variety of styles. There are posters from classic films made by legendary directors, and some that are coveted collectibles. Also featured are works by such noted designers as Saul Bass. Later this year, look for The Art of the Modern Movie Poster, a 500+ page tome published by Chronicle Books, an exhaustive overview of post-war movie poster design.
The Posteritati gallery is located in downtown New York at 239 Centre Street between Broome and Grand Streets, directly across the street from the historic Police Building. The gallery is open Tuesday through Saturday from 11 am to 7 pm, Sunday from noon to 6 pm, and Monday by appointment.
About Japanese Posters
Movie posters have signified modernization in Japanese cities throughout the 20th Century. In the 1920s and 30s, Harold Lloyd or Louise Brooks smiling in front of the theaters were fashion models from America for Japanese “modern girls” and “modern boys.” After the war, Catherine Deneuve, Audrey Hepburn or The Beatles took their place. Shochiku studio’s movie posters in the 1930s (designed by Takashi Kohno) drew inspiration from such artistic influences as Soviet avant-garde and constructivism. The colors of post-war movie posters aroused the yearning of Japanese audiences recovering from the war, for the American way of life recorded in Technicolor.
Japanese movie posters have been outlets of artistic expression for filmmakers to express their personal visions of their work. Akira Kurosawa, who used to be a painter in the Proletarian Movement, drew posters for Dodeskaden (1970) and Kagemusha (1980) with crayons.
Daisuke Miyao (Film Historian)
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