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a flat rectangle that turns a bare wall into a confession of who you are
means A large printed sheet meant to be displayed on a wall, used to advertise, inform, decorate, or rally support around a cause, event, or person.
from From "post," the upright stake or pillar where public notices were once nailed up for all to read — a word that traces back through Middle English to the Latin "postis," a doorpost or upright beam. A poster, then, was literally something put up on a post; the meaning drifted from the wooden support to the paper it carried, and finally to any bold sheet pasted in public view.
- origin
- Lithography in the 1860s made colorful posters cheap and everywhere
- wartime power
- Uncle Sam's pointing finger recruited millions of soldiers
- teen ritual
- Bedroom walls became shrines to bands and idols
- record price
- A 1927 Metropolis poster sold for over 690,000 dollars
uncle sam wants you — james montgomery flagg's 1917 wwi recruitment poster featuring the pointing finger, most iconic american poster ever
obey giant — street artist shepard fairey's wheat-paste posters starting in 1989, spawned the obama 'hope' poster in 2008
where's waldo — martin handford's 1987 poster campaign for the puzzle book series, sold millions of prints
movie posters — drew struzan hand-painted indiana jones and star wars posters from 1981-2005, defined the blockbuster era