Comments on: Piles of Polish Posters (Plakaty) Posted Presently.

Piles of Polish Posters (Plakaty) Posted Presently.

.kobayashi. — Sun, 13 Mar 2005 21:16:28 -0800

Freedom on the Fence: The Polish Poster. While we're at it: The history and culture of the Polish poster and an analysis of American Films in Polish Posters. Or, if you'd prefer, The Classic Polish Film Poster database (where the Disney/Children's film posters are quite lovely). Also, The Wallace Library at the Rochester Institute of Technology has a fantastic searchable and browse-able database, with many hi-res images. Finally, some other Polish Poster Galleries. (What's that? You want more? You want artist-specific galleries? Okay. Here's work by Mieczyslaw Gorowski, Piotr Kunce, Wieslaw Walkuski, and Jan Sawka. Oh, you wanted Communist-era Polish propaganda posters? Fine. Here ya go.) [previous MeFi discussion on Polish film posters; also, some of the images from these links may be NSFW, depending on how S your W environment is.]

By: NickDouglas

NickDouglas — Sun, 13 Mar 2005 22:00:32 -0800

Fantastic post. Great choice of links, excellent content, extra props for linking to previous discussion. These posters are the height of their craft -- they must have worked well for their intended events. I only wish these images were larger.

By: atom128

atom128 — Sun, 13 Mar 2005 22:16:45 -0800

man, i wish you'd posted this about 4 days ago. I just gave a presentation on polish movie posters (and ones from ghana) on friday in one of my classes. *sigh* great post tho. nice to see what i missed on my own research.

By: pmbuko

pmbuko — Sun, 13 Mar 2005 22:58:52 -0800

Very nice! I'm a Polish poster, myself...

By: sklero

sklero — Mon, 14 Mar 2005 00:37:20 -0800

fanfuckingtastic.

By: matteo

matteo — Mon, 14 Mar 2005 01:33:06 -0800

wonderful post, thanks

By: Doohickie

Doohickie — Mon, 14 Mar 2005 06:53:14 -0800

Yeah, you bet your dupah I'm Polish (-American)! This is a great post that will take a while to get all the way through. I have it bookmarked. Thanks. I may use some of the images to gussy up my genealogy files.

By: Rashomon

Rashomon — Mon, 14 Mar 2005 10:05:56 -0800

Great post. Two other Polish Poster sites I frequent are Polish Poster Gallery and PolishPoster.com

By: fet

fet — Mon, 14 Mar 2005 10:07:29 -0800

Also great: Polish Circus posters (which I collect.) Beautiful stuff. -s

By: ori

ori — Mon, 14 Mar 2005 12:54:35 -0800

great, thanks!

By: tommasz

tommasz — Mon, 14 Mar 2005 15:16:58 -0800

Great links, everyone! Good reminder of how culture can survive just about anything.