Abstract:
Posters, being used in both for advertisements and for social good, are everywhere in our world.
Their wide usage makes them take a great part in graphic designing practice. Posters may consist of
many visual elements like symbols, typography, illustrations, pictures, schemas, and photography.
Although photography is the newcomer of these elements, it has biggest share-out in usage.
Posters usually find place in public areas to achieve as much people as possible and these crowded
public areas are generally places that most of people are in motion so poster designs are expected
to make deep and fast impacts. Thinking that attribute of posters, we may say photography has
several advantages over writing and pictures; like creating sense of reality, being direct and fast
in signification etc. This paper examines the advantages of photography the usage of in poster
designing with the help of some actual poster designs.
