Edited by Tony Nourmand. Introduction by Christopher Frayling. Text by Alison Elangasinghe.
Steeped in nostalgia, this beautiful, diverse and definitive collection features posters from over 20 countries with work by over 150 art directors and illustrators
The most comprehensive overview of movie posters ever published, 1001 Movie Posters is a definitive coffee-table volume from world authority on the art form, Tony Nourmand. Spanning more than a century of global imagery, the book celebrates the most arresting, aesthetically powerful examples of the genre, including a number of posters that have never been published before. There has always been a raw immediacy to film posters: provoking and enticing, shocking and seducing audiences across the threshold of the movie theater. The artists tasked with communicating that have been at the forefront of design: groundbreaking visionaries such as Saul Bass and Paul Rand; Eastern European artists using poetic, surreal and often disturbing imagery in highly original and subversive concepts. Other poster artists have woven contemporaneous movements in art and popular culture into their designs, creating a time capsule of the obsessions and concerns of a different era. Iconic posters for films such as Metropolis, The Man with the Golden Arm, Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Goldfinger sit alongside more unexpected and lesser-known artwork for films such as 2001, Star Wars, Taxi Driver and The Birds. Nearly all cinematic movements are included, from early silent masterpieces through German Expressionism, film noir of the 1940s, 1950s science fiction, the psychedelic imagery of the 1960s, the gritty violence and retribution of the 1970s and 1980s, and then onward into the 21st century, where the stripped-back graphics nod back to the Bass minimalism of the 1950s. An extraordinary visual compendium, 1001 Movie Posters is the final word on movie posters and a must for film lovers and anyone interested in the power of advertising and design.
Robert MGinnis, "Breakfast at Tiffany's" (1961), Premiere, American one sheet.
PRAISE AND REVIEWS
Guardian
Tara Joshi
A vast selection of posters spanning the past century offers insight into contemporaneous tastes and styles, showcasing the medium’s eye-catching artistic innovations: glamorous paintings for 1922’s Salomé, scratchy, left-field illustration for 1987’s Withnail and I, and that terrifying, looming shark for 1975’s Jaws.
People Magazine
Lizz Schumer
... readers can travel back in time with a rich collection of iconic posters from memorable films including 'Metropolis,' 'Breakfast at Tiffany’s,' 'Goldfinger,' 'Star Wars' and 'Taxi Driver' and 'The Birds.'
Creative Review
Aimee McLaughlin
Spanning the colourful Parisian lithographs that marked the first public film screening by the Lumière brothers in 1896 through to recent blockbusters including 'Barbie' and 'Parasite,' it is the most comprehensive collection of film posters ever published.
Air Mail
Elena Clavarino
In the exquisite '1001 Movie Posters: Designs of the Times,' Nourmand shares a wealth of his own favorites. [...] The volume is thick and arguably the most comprehensive review ever published.
The Wall Street Journal
Ty Burr
Page after page elicits gasps.
The New York Times Book Review
A sweeping 640-page compendium of promotional posters announcing movies around the world, from 'Do The Right Thing' to 'Parasite,' to 'Snow White' to 'Star Wars' (the American, Hungarian, and Polish versions) to the first public screening in 1896.
The Sydney Morning Herald
Guy Maddox
Wanting to own a particular poster can reflect a complicated blend of emotions. As well as affection for a film, there is nostalgia for the experience of watching it at a certain time in your life, wanting a physical connection to a beloved actor or director, simple appreciation for something brilliantly designed or even aspiration for how you want to be perceived.
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Thursday, September 12 at 6 PM, Rizzoli Bookstore presents Tony Nourmand of Reel Art Press—a world authority on film posters—to celebrate 1001 Movie Posters: Designs of the Times, RAP's beautiful, definitive, 640-page compendium of the art form. In conversation with Angelina Lippert of Poster House, followed by a signing. Reserve your seat here! continue to blog
This weekend, we are all-in to celebrate the universally awesome feeling of a non-denominational, unpoliticized, last-hurrah-style, extra day off before our official work year begins. Let us hope that those of us who must still labor are earning king-size tips or getting overtime. To mark the occasion, we pulled a poster from Reel Art Press’s expertly curated and beautifully produced 640-page labor of love, 1001 Movie Posters: Designs of the Times. Featured here is French master graphic artist René Péron’s 1953 two-panel poster for Fred Zinnemann’s iconic, multi-Oscar-winning, Hollywood-goes-to-Hawaii wartime melodrama, From Here to Eternity, starring Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, Deborah Kerr, Frank Sinatra and Donna Reed, among other supporting stars. Happy Labor Day, one and all! continue to blog
Movie lovers, graphic designers and poster collectors, rejoice! Reel Art Press’s long-awaited, 640-page colossus 1001 Movie Posters: Designs of the Times has arrived at last. Edited by world film-poster authority Tony Nourmand and featuring 950 color reproductions and 150 black-and-white, this lovingly assembled (if back-breaking) compendium features posters from more than 20 countries and work by more than 140 art directors and illustrators—and includes several posters that have never been published before. Featured here is the 1944 poster for Teen Age, a “zero-budget exploitation flick that recycled footage from Gambling With Souls (1936) and Slaves in Bondage (1937),” according to Nourmand and text contributor Alison Elangasinghe. “The film is unwatchable by modern standards, yet its beautiful poster art is still able to arrest 80 years after it was hastily printed. The film took its title from the hot new phrase of 1944, ‘teen age’—coined to label the distinct spending power of the hormone-fueled 14- to 18-year-old age group. In the April 1945 issue of American Speech, it was listed in the ‘new words’ section, while in 1947 Encyclopaedia Britannica identified ‘teen ager’ as a new word coined in 1944.” continue to blog
FORMAT: Hbk, 9.5 x 11.5 in. / 640 pgs / 950 color / 150 b&w. LIST PRICE: U.S. $95.00 LIST PRICE: CANADA $132 ISBN: 9781909526938 PUBLISHER: Reel Art Press AVAILABLE: 9/3/2024 DISTRIBUTION: D.A.P. RETAILER DISC: TRADE PUBLISHING STATUS: Active AVAILABILITY: In stock TERRITORY: NA LA ASIA AFR ME
Published by Reel Art Press. Edited by Tony Nourmand. Introduction by Christopher Frayling. Text by Alison Elangasinghe.
Steeped in nostalgia, this beautiful, diverse and definitive collection features posters from over 20 countries with work by over 150 art directors and illustrators
The most comprehensive overview of movie posters ever published, 1001 Movie Posters is a definitive coffee-table volume from world authority on the art form, Tony Nourmand. Spanning more than a century of global imagery, the book celebrates the most arresting, aesthetically powerful examples of the genre, including a number of posters that have never been published before.
There has always been a raw immediacy to film posters: provoking and enticing, shocking and seducing audiences across the threshold of the movie theater. The artists tasked with communicating that have been at the forefront of design: groundbreaking visionaries such as Saul Bass and Paul Rand; Eastern European artists using poetic, surreal and often disturbing imagery in highly original and subversive concepts. Other poster artists have woven contemporaneous movements in art and popular culture into their designs, creating a time capsule of the obsessions and concerns of a different era.
Iconic posters for films such as Metropolis, The Man with the Golden Arm, Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Goldfinger sit alongside more unexpected and lesser-known artwork for films such as 2001, Star Wars, Taxi Driver and The Birds. Nearly all cinematic movements are included, from early silent masterpieces through German Expressionism, film noir of the 1940s, 1950s science fiction, the psychedelic imagery of the 1960s, the gritty violence and retribution of the 1970s and 1980s, and then onward into the 21st century, where the stripped-back graphics nod back to the Bass minimalism of the 1950s.
An extraordinary visual compendium, 1001 Movie Posters is the final word on movie posters and a must for film lovers and anyone interested in the power of advertising and design.
