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Over the last 50 years or so, the movie poster hobby has developed from a tiny collector’s niche almost exclusively populated by nerds and geeks to a playground for corporations and million dollar sellers, with regular auctions that gross $2 million and more.
Despite my 30 years as movie poster dealer and ten more years as a collector, I’m still a fairly ‘small fish’ in this big business pont. With that in mind, I’m actually surprised that it is still possible for someone like me to ‘break new ground’ so to speak. Which brings to the point of today’s post: The collection of more than 80 cinema related exhibition posters I recently added to the website.
For all I know, this is the first time a large selection cinema exhibition posters like this has been offered for sale. Below are three of my personal favorites from this lot. The rest can be seen in my CATALOG.
#1 BERT STERN MARILYN MONROE
From what I heard, Marilyn Monroe looked through all the photos Bert Stern shot of her and used a marker pen to cross out those she did not want published. The Stern originals sell for big money at auctions and art gallery these days, but the 1993 Hamburg exhibition poster is a rather affordable alternative:
#2 AUDREY HEPBURN BY BOB WILLOUGHBY
Audrey Hepburn wearing a Stetson Open Road cowboy hat. What more can I say?
#3 JOE DALLESANDRO SUPERSTAR
When I started out as an international movie poster dealer, among my bestsellers were the German posters for Andy Warhol films, first of all TRASH and FLESH. I think the German distributor had high expectations for these films, so large quantities of posters were printed. Needless to say, large quantities of posters survived and I would easily find them at film fairs for very little money. Sometime, I even picked them from the dollar bins. That was years before the internet, of course.
Looking back, it seems the Warhol posters alone paid for more than extended vacation in the US…
Another photo from this session was used for the German Style B poster that you can see HERE.
Hard to say why, but I personally like the exhibition poster a lot better:
