GRAPHIC DETAIL

HEN OTTO PREMINGER WAS LOOKING TO get with the times in the late 1960s and optioned John Hersey’s youth-centric LSD novel , he bypassed his regular designer Saul Bass (with whom he’d been working since 1953) and instead hired counterculture phenomenon Tomi Ungerer in 1957, and published over 140 more in his lifetime. For his friend Stanley Kubrick, he illustrated the poster for (a rejected design on his website shows a general with a mushroom cloud in place of a head). He created iconic posters for (“Expect the Unexpected”) and , but made only one other movie poster: for D.A. Pennebaker’s in 1968—a bawdy, ejaculatory piece pointing toward the erotic art that became his major interest in the early ’70s and got his children’s books banned from libraries in the U.S. for over 40 years. Ungerer left New York for Nova Scotia and then rural Ireland, and became a somewhat forgotten man, though in the last decade or so of his life the opening of the Tomi Ungerer museum in Strasbourg, France, the republishing of his books in the U.S., and the wonderful 2012 documentary reestablished his reputation. , meanwhile, was never made; Preminger channeled his counterculture energy into instead, the poster for which has a tiny Ungerer-esque character (unsigned but probably his) popping out of a pair of unbuttoned pants.