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A print of It's My Life, 1967, by Peter Strausfeld.
In operation from 1931 to 1986, the Academy Cinema was London’s premiere art house movie theater. In 1945, the Academy hired German refugee and artist Peter Strausfeld to create unique advertising posters for its roster of international film screenings. Over three decades, Strausfeld designed hundreds of bold, predominantly single-color linocut compositions with a deceptively simple hand-printed feel. Where mainstream movie posters typically relied on colorful, montage-style interpretations of scenes from a film combined with striking typography, Strausfeld’s posters remain some of the most unique examples of localized cinema advertising in history.
Written and directed by Jean-Luc Godard, Vivre sa vie (released as It’s My Life in the United Kingdom and My Life to Live in the United States) follows a woman who leaves her husband and child to pursue an acting career but ends up becoming a prostitute. The film stars Anna Karina, one of the darlings of French New Wave cinema as well as Godard’s wife and frequent collaborator. Her melancholy pose in this poster is directly drawn from a scene in the movie; however, Strausfeld has inverted it so that she is facing left.
Measures 11 x 15.25 inches. Ships rolled.
