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Poster advertising which posters were for sale

Poster
1960s (designed)
Artist/Maker
Osiris Visions Ltd. (publishers)
Unknown
Place of origin
England (made)

Psychedelic poster advertising posters for sale

Object details

Categories
Prints
Posters
Object type
Poster
TitlePoster advertising which posters were for sale (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Offset lithograph poster
Paper
Offset Lithograph
Brief description
Psychedelic poster advertising the posters on sale by the publishers Osiris Visions Ltd. London, ca. 1960s.
Physical description
Psychedelic poster advertising posters for sale
Gallery label
Osiris Visions Ltd
Poster advertising which posters were for sale
Offset lithograph
E.1753-1991

Osiris Visions were partly owned by IT, and funded by UFO. It was managed by Joe Boyd and Danny Halperin, who was art director of Witchseasons Productions. Posters which were originally designed for publicity purposes were now available by mail order from Osiris Visions. Osiris posters were also bought by poster shops. In addition, Osiris acted as an agency through which commissions could be made for posters and record sleeves for other people, for example, promotional posters for The Who. Besides UFO posters, Osiris commissioned posters specifically for sale as decorative posters, in particular those with esoteric messages, providing valuable opportunities for its regular artists.
With some of its profits from the 14 Hour Technicolour Dream event, a distribution company E.C.A.L. Ltd was set up to distribute underground newspapers and posters. This meant it also distributed posters published by Oz magazine, such as the 'Mister Tambourine Man', and bookshops such as the Unicorn Bookshop in Brighton."

Text by Julia Bigham
Subjects depicted
Posters
Sixties
Music
Bands
Psychedelic
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.1753-1991

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Record createdMarch 2, 2009
Record URL
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