PosterSpy: Alternative Movie Poster Collection

by Frédéric Claquin, Jack Woodhams

Way before the advent of social networks, the first, and sometimes only, visual contact you may have had with a movie was its poster. To return to this enlightened approach and escape the hard selling, marketing campaigns of today’s releases, this book pays tribute to the artists who celebrate the era when cinematographic posters made us dream. Presented by ARTtitude, this collaboration features the contemporary work of 58 different artists from the PosterSpy art community, one of the most influential groups devoted to alternative posters. The nearly 300 posters presented here cover a diverse range of genres and eras, from pop culture favorites like Star Wars and Goonies to the Wes Anderson filmography to horror and sci-fi classics. Each piece reveals intensely creative and detailed representations of films that ask the viewer to see the film in a new way and challenges the visual package included with the original release.

240 pages, Hardcover

Published March 28, 2018

Reviews

[Jorge Figueroa · Rating 5 out of 5]

For those lucky enough to have had the chance of growing up in a time where movie posters were treated with respect, commissioned to artists like Drew Struzan, the resurgence of this art form is most welcomed.
This is an amazing book, perhaps we don't have the opportunity to buy prints of these posters, nor the space to display them but this is the next best thing, and hopefully this is is only the first of many