The Momentary and the Monumental - Afterlives of Film Ephemera

The release of films was accompanied by a constellation of ephemera. Posters, lobby cards, vinyl record covers, and song booklets passed through many hands and contexts, accumulating layers of meaning along the way. The Momentary and the Monumental examines the afterlives of film ephemera as cultural artefacts. With a rich array of artworks from the Museum of Art & Photography’s Film Ephemera Collection, and essays by leading scholars of cinema and visual culture, this book urges readers to consider film publicity material as independent works of art that overlap with photography, visual print culture, paintings, and other artistic practices of the twentieth century.