Out of the Bachs

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Cuban film posters by Eduardo Muñoz Bachs (1937–2001)




Eduardo Muñoz Bachs, 1975 poster, El llamado de la selva





Eduardo Muñoz Bachs, 1976 poster, Zorro





Eduardo Muñoz Bachs, 1972 poster, El caballero inexistente





Eduardo Muñoz Bachs, 1975 poster for one of my favorite singers, Mercedes Sosa





Eduardo Muñoz Bachs, 1976 poster, Trópico





Eduardo Muñoz Bachs, 1972 poster, Estación Bielorrusia





Eduardo Muñoz Bachs, 1976 poster, La Patagonia rebelde





Eduardo Muñoz Bachs, 1973 poster, Monólogo





Eduardo Muñoz Bachs, 1976 poster, El ladrón que vino a cenar





Eduardo Muñoz Bachs, 1972 poster, Juegos tramposos de amor





Eduardo Muñoz Bachs, 1972 poster, La virgen y el gitano





Eduardo Muñoz Bachs, 1978 poseter, Las manos





Eduardo Muñoz Bachs, 1973 poster, Petulia





Eduardo Muñoz Bachs, 1975 poster, Rosa Blanca





Eduardo Muñoz Bachs, 1969 poster, El Gallo de Oro (The Golden Rooster)
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Eduardo Muñoz Bachs, 1969 poster for the ICAIC's Cine Movil (Mobile Cinema)
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Eduardo Muñoz Bachs, 1969 poster, El Hijo Prodigo
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Eduardo Muñoz Bachs, 1967 poster, El Azote de Dios (God's Whip or Bicz Bozy)
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And an image—not Bachs'—which I am constitutionally unable to resist posting:



Alfredo Rostgaard, Nixon fold-out poster
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The first fourteen posters come from the Efraín Barradas Collection at the Digital Library of the Caribbean. The last five are from the blog Cuban Posters (which seems temporarily dormant). I probably should have come up with a better title for this post, but couldn't pass up the opportunity to reference one of my favorite albums.


Two sites (1, 2) have covered Bachs in depth, though they both have dead links, etc. Georgetown University Library has a decent overview of Cuban posters in general.


I love Bachs' take on what I think of as Push Pin Graphic / Polish poster styles.


Also see:
The Holy Mountain of Contemporary Polish Posters
3:10 to Lublin