The “A-Frame” – Every Spread Leg Movie Poster Ever
Print Magazineexplores the over usage of the device cliche known as the “A-Frame”
The “A-Frame,” a cutoff-torso-spread-leg framing device, is the most frequently copied trope ever used. From steamy paperbacks designed in the ’40s, hardly a year has gone by without at least one ham-fisted advertisement using this perspective.
The earliest known uses were 19th-century engravings that showed spread-legged, Simon Legree–type slave masters lording over cowering victims. In Westerns, the quintessential showdown frames one duelist through the legs of the other, and mid-20th-century pulp magazine covers were known for their noir images of recoiling women seen through the legs of menacing men. Eventually, designers used the conceit to frame all manner of things…
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