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Metropolis visuals

Posted on January 21st, 2011 by steve

Cinematography for Fritz Lang’s Metropolis (1927) was inspired by Paul Citroen’s 1923 Metropolis photomontage (above).

And so was Boris Bilinsky’s poster for the film (below).

Commercial artists took some liberties with how they created visual promotion for Metropolis – redrawing or recreating the ‘maschinenmensch’ (machine-man) and the modernist cityscapes.

The most famous of the bunch, the golden Heinz Schulz-Neudamm version (above), set a record in 2005. One of four existing copies sold at auction for $690,000. Highest price paid for a motion picture broadside.

More posters below. And more here.

tags: design, design history, illustration // 3 comments  . . .   

3 Responses to “Metropolis visuals”

  1. the mehallo blog. beta. » Metropolis reinterpreted 2 // Jan 22, 2011 at 4:54 am

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