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Ghanaian Hollywood Movie Posters Magasco with his Scarface painting Samuel Adjetey Adjei, aka Magasco, was born on August 6, 1976.
Now, BEYOND THE STREETS in Los Angeles is shining a light on this inventive art form with VHS Dreams: The Art of Ghana’s ...
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.
The movie posters were being made exclusively by Ghanaian painters and for Ghanaian mobile cinemas. At that time, there was no Western influence on the creation of the posters.
The Lavelys, who have lent to similar exhibits of Ghanaian movie posters around the country, gifted nearly 40 posters to the Bowers’ permanent collection, most of which is now on display at the ...
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.
[Laughs] The posters are 100 times better than the films. The artists have done a great job of making these movies seem way better than they are. A lot of the artists haven't even seen the movies.
[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 ...