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Photographs as album covers


I saw Perersen show for the first time at Vu gallery in Paris in early 2000 then in Arles. Absolutely stunning body of work !
Yes we from the LP generation were influenced by the power of photography. Buying even some LP’s just because of the picture !
 
I like the photographic theme of this image:

Apparently inspired by David Hemmings in "Blow Up".
The photographer was Chris Gabrin, who apparently passed away just last week:
https://www.facebook.com/.
 


Sabattier was very trendy at that time.
 
Are there strong examples of a musician being the photographer for their own album cover? I couldn’t think of one offhand.

Jandek seems like a plausible candidate, but I don’t think most of the cover credits are known. (I used one of my photos as an album cover, but it doesn’t really count as a “real” release.)

-NT

[Edit: Apologies for forgetting the work of member @RJ-, whose _Fullness & Void_ was the subject of a thread here a little while ago.]
 
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Nick Drake did photography and I believe some of the photos included with his works were his own. Here he is with a Hasselblad.

 
Joe Henry's Civilians. Photo is by John Cohen, a New York photographer who worked as an assistant to Robert Frank in the late 50s. The photo is of artist Mary Frank, wife of Robert Frank.

It's a great album, too.

 
Another great Joe Henry album, Blood from Stars. Photo by W. Eugene Smith

 
Joe Henry's 2003 album Tiny Voices features a 1949 photo by Seymour Mednick titled "Mummers (Second and Delancy Street)"



 
jvo said:
check out the movie "squaring the Circle: the story of hipgnosis" .

absolutely fascinating - about photography and album art.
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Pink Floyd's Delicate Sound of Thunder:


I nearly posted this one earlier when I added U2's album covers, but didn't recognise the photographer's name, so skipped it. Reading up on your documentary recommendation, @jvo , I see the Art Director and Cover Designer was Storm Thorgerson, one of the two co-founders of the Hipgnosis design team and subject of 'Circling The Square'.
The album cover itself was photographed by Andy Earl and Anthony May.
 
I had this cowboy approach me at Tunnel View in Yosemite Valley -- he wanted some photos for an album cover.

He wanted to pay me cash on the spot after posing in every way that would technically make the 'shoot' to be considered commerical photography needing a permit. Posing in a busy place, standing on a wall above traffic, having a prop. There were two fellows photographing just to our left -- identical cameras on identical tripods, no camera bags full of lenses, etc., and giving me side glances.

After the cowboy tried to pay me (showing some folded up cash in his pocket) and I declined, I asked for the cowboy's email so I could send him an image or two free, of course, but he would not give me his contact info.

It may not have been, but it smelled big-time like a sting operation to get a photo permit violation to show-off to the brand new Supervisor for the Park.
 

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Or the greatest of them all:

 
I took this picture of pianist Alain Lefèvre backstage before a concert. It was black and white, but the jacket designers decided the second chair would look good in red.

Go figure.

 
I had one of my photographs used for this CD cover in 2020.
 

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I was in Monument Valley and an artist asked me to take a shot of him for his business card. This was it.
 

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