Saul Bass's Cinematic Art

摘要

Saul Bass wasn't just a designer, and he was more than a master craftsman. He was an artist, and a great one. I look at the posters he did for Hitchcock's Vertigo (1958) or Otto Prem-inger's The Man with the Golden Arm (1955), and I see much more than an evocation of the film-they are dynamic responses to the heart of the picture, the essence. The spirals for Vertigo were created by Saul with a machine he constructed, a recording pendulum with a little brush and an ink reservoir, attached to a separate pendulum that introduced odd variables into the movement.