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One Leg Leads to Another

Posted by John Lampard on Thursday, 22 May, 2008 to the design and art subset

One Leg Leads to Another

A collection of book and magazine covers, and movie posters, featuring the use of the “A-Frame” spread-leg stance.

The human leg has evolved continually over many eons, adapting from an underwater propeller to its current form. But on book covers and on film and theater posters, the leg has evolved very little. In fact, the “A-Frame,” a cutoff-torso-spread-leg framing device, is the most frequently copied trope ever used.

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