Barbara Baranowska is a Polish artist, known for designing book covers and movie posters, with her most well-known art being the poster for the 1981 film Possession.
[1] Baranowska studied painting at the Krakow Academy of Fine Arts during the 1950s, being one of only a handful of women associated with the so-called Polish School of Posters of the 1950s and 1960s.
She started out designing book jackets — in particular, a series of covers for works by Adolf Rudnicki..[1] She had a cameo in Janusz Morgenstern's 1960 film Goodbye, See You Tomorrow..[2].
In the 1970s she created French posters for multiple films, including Slaughterhouse-Five, Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory and her most famous, Possession.
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