FD 70-1

14" x 21" 1967

Victor Moscoso and Bob Fried both played around with multiple, double-exposed photographic and graphic images to simulate light show images. I love this poster, it combines several design elements seamlessly: Moscoso's great sense of color, his unique lettering, the combination of a "straight" photo combined with a flashy, abstract image in the background. This kind of stuff is easy to pull off today with computers, but when you are working in black and white (and almost ALL these posters were rendered in black and white "mechanicals" which were then each assigned a color in the four color process) and everything had to be done on layers of film, then composited....it wasn't so easy to do (especially under a time crunch and very small budgets).

Just as movies made in the early 20th century give us a real look at what living conditions were like then, so this poster with its photo of the band "captures" what these guys looked like and what they wore....giving us a little peek into how people dressed during that time. A little bit of pictorial history, if you will.

A beautiful piece of work...exceptional.

Staple holes, excellent/perfect condition.