'Comedy movie posters' is the twelfth volume in Bruce Hershenson's
excellent movie poster series. I have another book: 'Crime movie
posters' and as it's the same format as Comedy so I assume all the books
follow the same visual style. The way the pages are poster heavy might
not be to everyone's taste but (neatly) cramming them in was the only way
to show so many in eighty pages.
The posters are for movies from the 1920s to 2000 and it's the ones from the late forties into the fifties that I like with their use of color, illustration and lettering creating an exuberant collage style that was used by all the studios. Into the sixties and seventies the style was a mix of photos and illustration and in the last decade of the century photography was the main visual element.
A worthy addition to any movie fan's library.
The posters are for movies from the 1920s to 2000 and it's the ones from the late forties into the fifties that I like with their use of color, illustration and lettering creating an exuberant collage style that was used by all the studios. Into the sixties and seventies the style was a mix of photos and illustration and in the last decade of the century photography was the main visual element.
A worthy addition to any movie fan's library.
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