Let’s face it: there are some movie posters just as iconic as the movies themselves. Artist Bill Gold, who died this week at age 87, was the master of the iconic movie poster. His first poster was for Casablanca, of all films! Gold followed that with decades of work, including thirty posters of Clint Eastwood movies alone.
I recommend Gold’s New York Times obit and a scan of the Bill Gold images featured by Ben Travis on Empireonline.
Here’s a small sample of Bill Gold’s remarkable work.
