Posters part 1
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Today we start a mini-series on ads for products or events in the form of posters that feature nude males. Above, the oldest one I have is an 1899 Italian poster by Marcello Dudovich advertising writing ink.
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A 1900 Italian poster for Bianchi bicycles.
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A 1900 poster by Adolfo Hohenstein for a Hygiene Exposition in Naples.
This 1907 poster is for a cycle and car exhibition in Milan.
And another auto exposition, this one in Turin in 1908.
A 1908 French poster advertising a publication called "Man and the Earth", one booklet per week.
A 1910 poster for the Hotel Bären (Bear Hotel) in Basel, Switzerland.
We end with an international exhibition in 1911 in Turin, Italy, featuring a couple of exhibitionists.
Next time: World War I posters.
5 comments:
Very interesting.
+ In Stile Liberty.
In quel momento lo stile del progresso e della speranza per il futuro.
I noticed that there is nothing from the U.S.
Love the Bianchi poster. Mercury is taking the wings off his ankles because he can go just as fast on a Bianchi bicycle. At least that's the way I'm reading it.
Rick, I will show some U.S. posters later in this series, but in general, it seems U.S. posters were more prudish about nudity than European posters were.
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