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Matinee: 'National Park Posters'
13 September 2025
Saturday matinees long ago let us escape from the ordinary world to the island of the Swiss Family Robinson or the mutinous decks of the Bounty. Why not, we thought, escape the usual fare here with Saturday matinees of our favorite photography films?
So we're pleased to present the 621st in our series of Saturday matinees today: National Park Posters.
This 2:33 video features photographer and graphic artist Rob Decker, a self-described "national park superfan," revealing how his Nation Park Posters project came to life.
For over 60 years, he's enjoyed the parks, he says, and has photographed over 50 of them, trying to capture the one shot that defines each park. Which would take him way back.
That would be to when he was 19 and studied photography with Ansel Adams in Yosemite. That was his start in both photography and national parks.
Fast forward to his daughter's wedding in 2014. She needed save-the-date cards. He put something together for her inspired by the WPA designs of the 1930s and 1940s. And the cards were a hit with the family. Do more, they encouraged him.
But a man can only have so many daughters.
So he launched a Kickstarter campaign to produce posters of 10 parks in that original WPA style. And people across the country responded. So he founded National Park Posters where he sells the posters, calendars, canvas prints, stickers and more.
The company also returns 10 percent of the profits to the parks (which certainly need the help at the moment).