Comments on: Posters from 1880-1918 in huge resolution

Posters from 1880-1918 in huge resolution

Kattullus — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 10:00:32 -0800

Art of the Poster 1880-1918 has high-quality scans of 162 posters. The images can either be viewed through a zooming window in the browser or exported in enormous resolutions (export image link in top left corner of image page). Here are some of my favorite posters: Scribner's Fiction Number, Between the Acts All Tobacco Cigarettes, Palais de la Danse, Starnberger-see, Read the Sun, Cercle Artistique de Schaerbeek, Bosch-licht, XXV Ausstellung Secession and Cabaret du Chat Noir.

By: Kattullus

Kattullus — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 10:01:59 -0800

The in-site tools can be used to crop, cut and clip the images in all kinds of ways.

By: procrastination

procrastination — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 10:09:19 -0800

Very cool stuff. Anyone know where you can get these printed full size, or close to it, with reasonably high quality?

By: Turtles all the way down

Turtles all the way down — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 10:29:18 -0800

Very cool! I'm using the Bosch spark plugs one as the basis of the colour scheme of the web site I'm designing. (I'd link but the site seems to be borked now.)

By: Bron

Bron — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 10:47:01 -0800

Thanks for this. I'm currently enjoying a great Ludwig Hohlwein poster I've never seen before. (Yes, I'm aware he was a Nazi...but such a great artist...)

By: misanthropicsarah

misanthropicsarah — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 10:48:52 -0800

cool! i'd like to know where you can get these printed too.

By: Shepherd

Shepherd — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 10:53:37 -0800

I work in an ad agency office and we have some crazy oversize printers -- I may just have to ask about what my in-house cost would be to print some of these out after work. They're certainly large enough at full resolution, and I'd LOVE to have one of those Adler Typewriter ads in my office at home.

By: stenseng

stenseng — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 11:00:19 -0800

Am I being dense - Can I download these full res, and if so, how?

By: stenseng

stenseng — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 11:04:33 -0800

Nevermind - figured it out - "export image." I was in fact being dense. Welcome to Friday.

By: languagehat

languagehat — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 11:12:06 -0800

Cabourg à 5 heures de Paris (1896): Proust's favorite resort, the original of Balbec in Remembrance of Things Past. Great post (as usual)!

By: anthill

anthill — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 11:18:46 -0800

This is perfect fodder for the Propaganda remix project.

By: Grimp0teuthis

Grimp0teuthis — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 11:28:11 -0800

These are beautiful, thank you! I'd love to dl the full-res

By: jadepearl

jadepearl — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 11:34:21 -0800

It is a lovely collection and it is very generous to allow hi-res download, which of course, has borked their servers.

By: Muddler

Muddler — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 11:48:46 -0800

Ok, I admit I'm too busy/lazy to do this today, but it would be super-cool-wonderful if other Mefites would comment with links to the various other posts about high resolution poster images/vintage photographs and further websites containing such material. For example, library of congress.

By: seanmpuckett

seanmpuckett — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 12:01:57 -0800

I've got a 44" photo printer, and some of my business is printing for others. Pricing and more information here, but for example, a 20x30" print on photo paper will run you $33CAD. $10CAD shipping to Canadian destinations, $15CAD shipping to the US for as many prints as will fit in a tube. If you want a print, email me the link to the poster you want and how big you want it, and I'll email you back an invoice.

By: juv3nal

juv3nal — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:00:49 -0800

Mucha is neato.

By: Countess Elena

Countess Elena — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 15:58:38 -0800

I love these, particularly Mucha's, of which I have a calendar. Mucha pinup girls look like me, which is good for the old s.-e. Can anyone tell me, though, why "Cabaret du Chat Noir" showed up everywhere in the past few years? I can't tell you how many dorm rooms I've seen this in. I've received it on a postcard and seen it for sale on postcards everywhere. Was it in a movie I didn't see?

By: marsha56

marsha56 — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 18:41:26 -0800

Love this one of a light bulb.

By: D.C.

D.C. — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 19:09:42 -0800

I was excited about this, and I have access to large format color printers, but I'm not impressed. All of the ones I've checked so far are kinda-crappy scans of halftones, where I know the original posters were not printed that way. A high-res scan of a book-page-sized reproduction of a poster is not going to print well. There's too much detail lost when the original photos were turned into halftones, plus CYMK registration problems, and then further loss of fidelity during the scanning of the already-degraded reproductions.

By: Plug Dub In

Plug Dub In — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 00:13:43 -0800

D.C. is very right. These aren't gonna make nice big prints. Small prints, you might have somethin'. Not only is the moire intense, but they're only 72 dpi at full size. Damn pity. Really cool for reference though. Might work nice in my screensaver-images folder, too.

By: jayder

jayder — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 13:06:56 -0800

I immediately recognized the light bulb poster for its resemblance to the cover of this book. I assumed the book cover was an original design. Funny how so many of the coolest "contemporary" designs turn out not to be contemporary at all, but rather are knock-offs of older art.

By: mkim

mkim — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 19:22:50 -0800

Very nice. Thank you for this.