Trailers and social media do so much to promote new releases, do we need posters still?
, movie posters are always popular decorations in homes – often mementos of favourite cinema experiences. Other people like to collect and display posters of Hitchcock or James Bond films.
In the art world, collectors pay huge sums for rarities. One of only four surviving copies of the original German poster for the 1927 sci-fi classicsold for $US690,000 in 2005, which is still a world record for any type of poster. The rich and wonderful history of movie posters dates back to when the Lumiere brothers promoted their sessions in the early days of cinema by showing a beam of light projected onto a screen so potential customers knew how the new art form differed from a stage show.
“He would always say, ‘Go to the back. There are posters there. Just pick whatever you want’. So I used to pick them up, go home and tack them to the wall. I’d rip them down to put something else up the following week.” Being the late 1960s – early 1970s, these posters were often for Bruce Lee and John Wayne movies. But Nourmand’s taste has broadened considerably.In the early 1990s, he started buying and selling vintage posters then co-owned a London gallery showcasing them until 2010.
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