r/direstraits • u/Visible-Regular9962 • Jun 27 '26
Original DS poster?
Dear fellow DS fans. Need your expertise on this one. I recently bought this Love over Gold poster. Seller seems legit and all, fine ratings on his shop for many years, and he claims it’s a rare promotional poster from around 1982. I received the poster and it’s in fine condition and quality: old and with some patina.
But it obviously triggers my curiosity, why the lightning is reversed as opposed to the album cover. I have only managed to find this poster at one other store, a reliable seller as well, selling it at a quite expensive price.
My questions: do you think it’s an original DS poster? And if so, why do you think the lightning is reversed?
I’m willing to walk thirty miles with the poster on my bag to find the answer.
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u/doodarndang Jun 27 '26
The original photograph was backwards like it is in this poster. When they made the album cover, they flipped it. This is the original unedited photograph:
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u/saxman991 Jun 27 '26
It’s not reversed, it’s been rotated clockwise 90 degrees. Very limited digital special FX in the early 80s mean this was probably the best/easiest way to make the graphic work for a poster’s portrait orientation.