The Rolling Stones: Some Girls
"Thorgerson’s death is a reminder of a larger
transition in popular music: the fact that the visual accompaniment has
changed drastically. During the nineteen-fifties and early
nineteen-sixties, the dominant language for LP cover art was
portraiture. The vast majority of Frank Sinatra albums, for example,
show Sinatra’s face, sometimes photographed, sometimes illustrated, with
an eye toward the mood of the music. Some labels began to change the
language of the LP cover, most notably Blue Note,
which, under the direction of Reid Miles, used close-up, atmospheric
photography (often by label co-founder Francis Wolff) and stark, bold
graphic design. Things changed again in the late sixties, when Peter
Blake created the high-concept cover for the Beatles’ 'Sgt. Pepper’s
Lonely Hearts Club Band,' and even legitimate Pop artists like Andy
Warhol supplied covers or concepts for bands like the Velvet Underground
and the Rolling Stones. Thorgerson and other top designers of the
seventies (Peter Corriston, for example, who was perhaps the most
innovative of all, with his die-cut work for Led Zeppelin’s 'Physical
Graffiti' and the Stones’ 'Some Girls') built on the backs of these
innovations" (Ben Greenman, "Storm Thorgerson and the End of Album Art," New Yorker, 4/25/13).
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