Now, BEYOND THE STREETS in Los Angeles is shining a light on this inventive art form with VHS Dreams: The Art of Ghana’s ...

During the 1980s and 1990s, Ghanaian artists created vibrant hand-painted movie posters to promote Hollywood blockbuster films. These posters served as promotional material for mobile cinemas that ...

Ghanaian Hollywood Movie Posters Magasco with his Scarface painting Samuel Adjetey Adjei, aka Magasco, was born on August 6, 1976.

In Ghana – where the Golden Age of movie posters during the 1980s and 1990s produced these lurid, vibrant and outlandish originals – the movie poster may be a dying art form but it has since ...

How Ghana's Gory, Gaudy Movie Posters Became High Art In the ’80s and ’90s, artists were charged with making films seem as lurid and enticing as possible, regardless of plot.

As both Ghanaian and Thai movie posters prove, it is nigh impossible to screw up an Evil Dead poster, no matter what continent you’re on. I spoke too soon!

Brian Chankin, the owner of Odd Obsession Movies, a cult-video store in Chicago’s Wicker Park, turned his fascination with Ghanaian movie posters into a second business with his sister, Heidi Anne.

[1/6]Ghanaian movie poster artist Daniel Anum Jasper 54, flips through a photo album containing pictures of movie posters he painted at his workshop in the area of Teshie, Accra, Ghana February 11 ...

BOLD, RAW & UNCENSORED: GHANAIAN MOVIE POSTERSruns through March 16 at the Widener Gallery, Austin Arts Center, 300 Summit St., on the campus of Trinity College in Hartford.

During the 1980s and 1990s, Ghanaian artists created vibrant hand-painted movie posters to promote Hollywood blockbuster films. These posters served as promotional material for mobile cinemas that ...