MetaFilter posts tagged with vintage and russia

Proletarians of All Lands, Unite!

madamjujujive — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 07:01:23 -0800

Peasant! Free your pregnant wife from work, don't allow her to pick up heavy items since this will harm her and the child. An excellent collection of vintage soviet propaganda, public health, and infographics posters from 20s to 30s, many with full translations.

A whole movie in one image

filthy light thief — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 22:31:38 -0800

Movie posters carry the movie in one still image. But they're also a great overview of trends, both artistic and popular. Modern major film posters are common enough, and if you're looking for some discussion of modern posters, Movie Poster Addict might be your scene. But dig deeper and you come across quality versions of foreign films, such as Mexican posters (deep link to a section of Pulp Morgue) or hand painted posters from Russia, India and Pakistan, even the US. MeFi's own flapjax at midnite shared a collection of recent finds from the 1960s and '70s on in this Flickr set. [flapjax at midnite's collection via mefi projects] Some-what pre-vious-ly on Me-ta-Filter. And not from MetaFilter, but from our favorite list site: 20 baffling foreign movie posters.

looking through old photographs

nickyskye — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 18:08:46 -0800

People sleeping, gently vulnerable and evocative, vintage photographs. Snowball's blog is packed full of interesting photographs: I love this one and this. Naughty Marilyn Monroe [nsfw], retro, kids, teens, from the time of the Russian invasion in Afghanistan, concentration camps.

Printed Ephemera

jonson — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 09:42:13 -0800

Civil War Posters, Soviet Children's Books, 19th Century Shipping Posters, and much, much more are all part of this Flickr user's amazing collection of printed ephemera.