Lars Muller's 36th 'Poster Collection' title focuses its lens on the cinema poster, a medium that has repeatedly exemplified graphic innovation.
The works presented in this publication illustrate an alternative to the Hollywood film poster with its canonical motifs and pompous spectacle. The unorthodox visual language of these “other” film posters largely dispenses with star portraits and film stills. Subtly poetic, and often ambiguous, films are interpreted individually, the visual material is creatively defamiliarized and the content consolidated into symbols. Up to this day, individual designers continue to celebrate the film poster as an autonomous artistic medium.
Size: 240 x 165mm (paperback with flaps)
Pages: 96
Publisher: Lars Muller
