ATG poster gallery

[Sarah Teasley]

Dear Martin,

Clearly I should have checked e-mail before sending off that last list!

One thing: judging from the style of the illustration, I'd be willing  
to bet that the Hatsukoi poster on your site is by Uno Akira, not  
Yokoo Tadanori. The 1970-nendai Guraffizumu catalogue also lists it  
as designed by Uno.

The graphic design and typography magazine IDEA has published some  
excellent things on Japanese designers who created posters for movies  
in the 1930s and 1960s in the past few years--Uno Akira, Yokoo  
Tadanori, Awazu Kiyoshi and Kono Takashi among them. The National  
Museum of Modern Art Tokyo (MoMAT) also had a good exhibition of  
Kono's posters a few years ago.

All best, and again, thanks for making the posters available online!

Sarah
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Sarah Teasley
Assistant Professor of Art History
Northwestern University
s-teasley at northwestern.edu





On Dec 13, 2008, at 9:53 AM, eigagogo at free.fr wrote:

> Thanks for the link (i've finally found Shindo's Ningen visual!)
> 2 importants remarks:
> - this article doesn't list all alternative poster version which  
> were sometimes
> made by a totally different artist for a specific movie theater  
> (Roland kindly
> warned me about that specific fact!)
> - this article doesn't list non-japanese movie distributed by ATG  
> network
> (there's quite a lot of movies involved!). i don't plan to add this  
> to the
> article for the moment (too exhausting!)
>
> Here's what i could collect about artist informations:
>
> Maiko Ichikawa:
> Matatabi
>
> Kiyoshi Awazu:
> Himiko
> Shinju Ten no Amijima
> Otoshiana
> Ningen (B2 version)
>
> Setsu Asakura:
> Ninja Bugeicho
> Bara no soretsu
>
> Tadanori Yokoo:
> Kaidan Ikiteru Koheiji
> Hatsukoi Jigoku-hen
> Shinjuku dorobo nikki
>
> Terry Jonson et Tonny Rodriguez:
> Crazy Familly
>
> Manpeu Ikeuchi:
> Ososhiki
>
> Takashi Ishii:
> Kugatsu no jodan kurabu-bando
>
> Hayashi Seiichi:
> Mandara (Shinjuku Bunka version)
>
> Yoji Kuri:
> Nikudan (B2 version)
>
> Other 'non-ATG' arist would also deserve some gallery, Takashi Kono  
> for example
> (you can check his Ozu's'Shukujo to hige' art at http:// 
> tampopo.hautetfort.com/)
>
>
>
> Selon wgardne1 at swarthmore.edu:
>
>> Martin,
>>
>> Since I happen to have some materials on this particular artist on  
>> hand, I
>> can confirm that the posters for Otoshiana, Shinju ten no amijima,  
>> and
>> Himiko are by AWAZU Kiyoshi. Also, I am 99% sure that the poster for
>> Shinjuku dorobo nikki is by YOKOO Takanori (who also acts in the  
>> film). It
>> would be interesting to have other info on graphic designers  
>> involved with
>> ATG (no doubt a who's who of Japanese graphic design).
>>
>> Incidentally, Awazu Kiyoshi has a well-produced website (in  
>> Japanese and
>> English) where you can view many of his poster designs and other  
>> works.
>> It's a fascinating cross-section of arts and culture of the 60's,  
>> 70's and
>> beyond (independent and studio films, underground theater,  
>> publications,
>> galleries, department stores, etc.).
>>
>> http://www.kiyoshiawazu.com/
>>
>> Will
>>
>> On Sat, December 13, 2008 05:09, eigagogo at free.fr wrote:
>>> Will, Sarah,
>>>
>>> thanks for your feedback!
>>> Adding artist name would be indeed a valuable service ...  
>>> unfortunately, i
>>> don't
>>> have these informations. However, if someone can provide me such
>>> informations,
>>> there's no problem to add them to these pages!
>>>
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>>
>>> Martin
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>

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