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September 2005, Shot in glorious sexploitation

- Snapshots: Chelsea Girls Film Poster

- November 2005

We Love Exploitation…Mondo-Tastic

Isn’t it strange how many bad films have such brilliant posters? The lavishly tooled collection Exploitation Poster Art brings together 200 of the very best/ worst of their kind. Ever-lurid, over-the-top and over-sensational, they’re also a great reminder of their times and attendant cultural obsessions; The Inside Of The White Slave Trade (1913), Sex Maniac (1934), Marihuana – Assassin Of Youth (1937), Black Market Babies (1945), Unwed Mother (1958), Naked As Nature Intended (1961), The Black Gestapo (1975). And lines like: “Scene after scalding scene NEVER before depicted on the living motion picture screen”, are certainly a lot more enticing than: “contains sexual content”. Mind you, the one for Young Man With A Horn was a bit of a disappointment… Exploitation Poster Art, edited by Tony Nourmand and Graham Marsh, published by Aurum Press, £18.99. There’ll be an auction of over 300 posters from Tony Nourmand’s collection at Christie’s, South Kensington, London, SW7 (020 7839 9060), on Thursday December 8 th. www.christies.com