The Beatles ~ (2) sets of four 11"x14" Richard Avedon Posters

Description: In August 1967, the American photographer Richard Avedon met with the Beatles in Thompson House, London, and took a number of photographic portraits of the band. Avedon used a new solarization technique with the photographs and adorned them with psychedelic saturation effects. The were first published in January of the following year in Look Magazine in the US, and Daily Express in the UK. They were wildly popular and were subsequently sold as this poster set. This set is a recreation of the original huge posters available back in 1968. Each of these posters measure approximately 11" by 14". They would look stunning in your recroom.You are getting TWO SETS - one for you + one set for a friend. They have been professionally produced on printer's card stock - quite firm.I ship in a heavy cardboard envelope via USPS Ground Advantage @ about $12 which is why I give you 2 sets plus the 1967 print (and usually MORE "gifts").**** I will also include this copy of the 1967 GROOVIE HAPPENING SUNDAY AFTERNOON (Summer of Love) Sparta Graphics Poster designed by Jim Michaelson. It measures just slightly over the same 11" by 14".Paul Kantner, rhythm guitarist of Jefferson Airplane, once said, "If you can remember anything about the 60s, you weren't really there." Luckily, posters like this gem still exist as reminders of that crazy time. The title of the poster is "Groovy Happening Sunday Afternoon", and it depicts the Summer of Love, the giant messy months-long music fest/love-in that took place in San Francisco in the summer of 1967. Floating amidst a sky of psychedelic pink word art is a hot air balloon driven by Snoopy and trailing a banner that says "San Francisco or Bust". Below the balloon, you will recognize many faces frolicking at the junction of Haight-Ashbury: members of Jefferson Airplane, The Beatles, The Monkees, The Mamas and the Papas, Paul Revere and the Raiders, James Brown with jiving legs, Sonny & Cher, and The Supremes, among others. You'll also spot Muhammad Ali in irons, arrested in 1965 for evading the Vietnam draft. Next to him waving an American flag is, I think, Ralph Nader (or Everett Dirksen?), who by then had published the ultimate gadfly book, Unsafe at Any Speed. And in an unusual turnaround, running away from bikini-clad babes is Sean Connery as James Bond, fresh off the set of You Only Live Twice. Let's not forget sitting cross-legged under the Haight-Ashbury street sign is Bob Dylan, simultaneously strumming his guitar and playing his harp. He'd already recorded Blonde on Blonde, the double-album that perhaps contained the lyrical germination that sprouted and spread these past fifty years, growing into an oeuvre meriting the Nobel Prize for Literature. The poster was designed by Jim Michaelson, an artist out of San Jose State who won a design contest held by the owner of Sparta Graphics, David Schiller. The twosome went on to collaborate for many years, and their posters are highly collectible. Do you think Jim Michaelson could have imagined what would someday become of his subjects? That they would die of overdose, maybe. But assassination? Or how about the honors? The various Halls of Fame, the knighting by the Queen of England, the lighting of the Olympic torch, the Congressional Medals of Honor and the Nobel Prize, for goodness sake. One of them (Diana Ross) would also perform at the Nobel ceremony. It's heady to consider so much life and art in one little poster!They will be shipped in an firm oversize shipping envelope and these are the exact same posters that you will be receiving - SMOKE FREE HOME.

Price: 11.95 USD

Location: Racine, Wisconsin

End Time: 2025-01-18T23:14:31.000Z

Shipping Cost: 12.95 USD