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Author:	Various Authors
Title:	Album Cover Album
Subtitle:	The Book Of Record Jackets Edited By Hipgnosis & Roger Dean
Publisher:	Dragon's World
Country:	UK
Date:	1977
Format:	Paperback
Genre:	Art & Design, Music
ISBN-10:	0905895010
Total Editions:	2
Rating:	Rate
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	3 Own
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Introduction: Dominy Hamilton
Credits and Index: Diana Korchien
Research: Peter Christopherson
Research: David Howells
Text Editor: James Slattery

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ppint. 21st Mar 2021		hipgnosis was an art design group founded by the artists, storm thorgerson and aubrey powell, later adding peter christopherson, working at and out of 6 denmark street, london - london's ''tin pan alley'' - specialising and delighting in surrealist and other unusual treatments and associations of photographic images and concepts, including the occasional visual pun. their single most famous cover was that which they produced for pink floyd's ''dark side of the moon'' lp. hipgnosis was a major record album cover art design source for over a decade (1968-1983, storm thorgerson continuing to work through 2013), usually working for the artists - as opposed to working to the record label's manager or art director, which had always been far and away the more normal arrangement in the record and music industry. this allowed them to reflect far more closely the artists' tastes, inclinations and desires, and also take into account their preconceptions, if any - several of the most strikingly successful covers resulted from hipgnosis being given a completely free hand and coming up with a number of options, *all* appealed to the band's members (e.g. some of their cover design proposals for pink floyd).

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Various Authors - Album Cover Album - Collins Design - Hardcover - USA - 9780061626951 (2008)