Bill Gold - PosterWorks - Master Edition

This limited slipcased edition includes a hand-signed letter from Bill Gold as well as an art folio of six, numbered, limited edition prints of unseen poster designs for A Clockwork Orange, Catch-22, High Plains Drifter, All the President's Men, The Way We Were, and Get Carter.

In 1942, a young man at Warner Bros. art department created a poster for Casablanca. Over the next sixty-three years, posters for A Streetcar Named Desire, Dial M For Murder, Bonnie and Clyde, Bullitt, My Fair Lady, Get Carter, Dirty Harry, The Untouchables and Unforgiven became coveted items, cherished by movie-goers all over the world. The same artist is responsible for them all.

Bill Gold’s life’s work spans six decades and over two thousand films. He is the man behind campaigns for the greatest movies the world has ever seen.

Bill Gold: PosterWorks is a celebration of his extraordinary and prolific talent. With a foreword from long-time collaborator and friend, Clint Eastwood, Bill Gold is a unique collector's opus detailing the artist’s creative process, his army days, early career, posters for Elia Kazan, Stanley Kubrick, Alfred Hitchcock, Francois Truffaut through to his final work in 2003 on Eastwood’s Mystic River. Archivist of his own work, with a personal collection of unseen designs, alternative versions, sketches, drafts, notes and photographs, Bill Gold’s incredible history has never been accessible to the public until now.

A notoriously cut-throat industry, Hollywood evolves with few constants yet Bill Gold’s talent endures. At 89 years old, this is the first time that the world is invited to see the full scope of his life’s work in one breathtaking book.

Tony Nourmand is co-founder of Reel Art Press and editor of all R|A|P publications.

Tony launched Reel Art Press in the spring of 2010, with inaugural publications, The Rat Pack and Bill Gold: PosterWorks, released in the autumn of that year to worldwide press acclaim. The company continues to go from strength to strength and 2011 has already seen the release of the celebrated Weddings and Movie Stars. Hollywood And The Ivy Look is the fourth book released by R|A|P.

Tony is also the author of a further sixteen books on entertainment-related imagery. They have sold over a million copies worldwide and are recognized as authoritative texts. Titles include James Bond Movie Posters, Audrey Hepburn: The Paramount Years, The Godfather in Pictures and Stars and Cars. He also co-authored Hitchcock Poster Art and co-edited a series of books with Graham Marsh on movie poster art by the decade and by genre.

Before launching Reel Art Press, Tony was renowned as a world expert on original vintage film posters. He co-owned The Reel Poster Gallery in London for twenty years and was also the Christie’s London consultant for Vintage Film Posters.

Christopher Frayling was until recently Rector of London's Royal College of Art, the world's only entirely postgraduate university of art and design, and was also Chairman of the Arts Council of England. He was Professor of Cultural History at the RCA from 1979 until last year, and is now Professor Emeritus.

An historian, a critic and an award-winning broadcaster on network radio and television, Christopher has published seventeen books on art, design and modern culture - including most recently, Ken Adam: The Art of Production Design, Once Upon a Time in Italy and Henry Cole and the Chamber of Horrors.

His television series include The Face of Tutankhamun, Strange Landscape and Nightmare - The Birth of Horror; his radio series include America - the movie and Britannia - the film. Christopher has also introduced several of Tony Nourmand's previous books on the history of film posters.

Christopher was knighted in the year 2000 for "services to art and design education".

Jake Noakes is a creative director with a background in advertising and fashion. He works with global brands including Nike, Asics/Onitsuka Tiger, Heineken, Pernod-Ricard and Bacardi. He specialises in printed media - mainly books and magazines - often creating limited edition bespoke publications for his clients. He also art directs several magazine titles including View2, L'OfficielNL, L'OfficielBE and Scalpel: A Shortcut to inspiration.