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Without
sound or movement, a movie poster must attract
the viewers’ attention, and somehow portray
the whole spirit of the movie at a moment’s
glance.
A
great deal of the success or failure of the
film rests on the movie poster artists'
ability to entice the viewer to want to
see the film.
With the beautiful artwork and the soul
of the movie in one piece of paper, it’s
no wonder why movie poster collecting
has become so popular. It’s like bottling your
favorite memories of a movie and saving
them for later on this simple poster.
The movie poster artists that carry this
heavy burden have to be some of the best
in the world, so we take this site to
salute these mostly unheralded giants that a
great deal of our collections are based
upon.
How terrible would our collection be if
each movie poster only had the title on
it. |
Poster
Artist of the Month |
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John
Alvin
With the passing
of John this month, we wanted to
show some of the GREAT artwork that
he produced. His wonderful artwork
has delighted untold numbers of
collectors. John was considered
one of the greatest poster artists
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Something to remember
Each country is
different in the variety of poster sizes
that were used AND the way the poster
artist worked with the studios. Quite
often different artists would do artwork
for different poster sizes, OR the
artist would supply several different
pieces, so take a look at the different
pieces for each film |
For LAMP Members
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We
have a new log to help you identify
signatures. We have over 100 artist
signatures from all over the world
that you can compare and identify in
an easy log format. We will continue
adding more.
Artist
Signature Log
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In
each country, we have a list of the artists
that we have with a link directly into our
archive to show you the posters they created.
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For LAMP Members
We
are adding 'expanded' articles on each artist,
such as photos, biography, a list of their
works and any articles or other material that
we find on that artist.
If we do not have it online yet, email
me and I'll be glad to furnish whatever material
we have compiled so far.
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ANYTHING....
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LAMP
Approval Seal
You'll be glad you did!!
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LAMP Member
take
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and a little BETTER
Each Day -
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For the Future.
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