(Famous) photographers on album covers

[Phantomas]

Bruce Davidson:

http://www.porhomme.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/ill-communication-remastered-by-beastie-boys.jpg



(Disclaimer: I'm not sure how this fits with "no copyrighted images posting" rule, but I'm taking the risk since album covers are used in various ways on the nets and photographer copyrights become kind of blurred. Otherwise fine to delete the thread).

 

[Andy Kibber]

William Eggleston's photos have been used on a number of album covers. Details here: http://blakeandrews.blogspot.com/2009/07/william-egglestons-album-cover-guide.html

 

[kbg32]

Do you mean "album covers taken by famous photographers"?

 

[Phantomas]

Do you mean "album covers taken by famous photographers"?

Yeah 🙂 I'm not sure there are any album covers with photographers posing on them.

 

[Phantomas]

William Eggleston's photos have been used on a number of album covers. Details here: http://blakeandrews.blogspot.com/2009/07/william-egglestons-album-cover-guide.html

I only recognised Primal Scream. Good one.

 

[Vics]

Francis Wolff was famous for all the Blue Note covers he shot, but he was half owner of the label, and was never famous for his photography in any other setting. There are at least two great books of his Blue Note pictures of John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Art Blakey, Clifford Brown, and many, many others! Shot the pictures in the recording studio with Rollei, strobe and Tri-X. He took his pictures when the musicians were listening to playback. Great stuff. http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=1373

 

[intheviewfinder]

Ernst Haas photographed The Band during a live performance for the album Rock of Ages.

 

[rlouzan]

Mr. Rock & Roll 😎 Jim Marshall

http://www.silberstudios.tv/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Johnny_Cash_At_San_Quentin.jpeg

 

[OurManInTangier]

May I simply say Ill Communication, great album. Plus, Bruce Davidson - wow, ok. You learn something new everyday

 

[Jamie123]

Yeah, the thread title is a bit misleading. I cannot think of any album cover that has a famous photographer on it. 🙂

'Album covers by (famous) photographers' is a bit of a tricky one aswell, though, as most album covers are photos and usually it's either the case that a photographer is commissioned for them or they are taken from an archive. The question then really is what kind of fame we're talking about here. I'm sure David LaChapelle did a lot of album covers but that's not really what we care about, right?
So I guess the question is more about famous non-commercial photographer's whose photos were used on an album cover even though they weren't intended as such 🙂

How about Sugimoto's seascape on that U2 cover?

 

[Jamie123]

William Eggleston's photos have been used on a number of album covers. Details here: http://blakeandrews.blogspot.com/2009/07/william-egglestons-album-cover-guide.html

That website is missing one, though: http://www.ntimm.ca/_/sumner-meet-spoon/

 

[Sonnar Brian]

On posting images "inline": the RFF TOS states that you must be the copyright holder, or have permission.

If you took the picture of the album, and posted that image, should be fine. Posting a jpeg from a site that you do not own the copyright to, problem.

Confusing?

If only every book, picture, and album cover used the copyright permissions of the IBM Mark I programming manual. My book, my picture, on good grounds for copying it.

 

[Muggins]

Does Elvis Costello count?

http://laist.com/2008/03/09/cd_review_sort_of_-_elvis_costello_-_this_years_business_model.php

Funnily enough, I remembered this as a TLR - looks more like a Hassy!

Adrian

 

[rodinal]

Don't forget the Patti Smith's album covers by Robert Mapplethorpe.

 

[sinetsin]

A picture by Eugene Smith for Monk album by Thelonious Monk.

Cartier Bresson in Bill Evans: the paris concert

 

[sepiareverb]

Lee Friedlander shot a bunch- a few are shown here- not all of these are his- but photographers are credited- including Jay Maisel.

More Friedlander here.

 

[Bob Michaels]

Cellist Erik Friedlander simply uses his dad's photos for his album covers.

 

[d.keljikian]

How about Robert Frank's photos of the freak show performers at Times Square NYC for The Rolling Stones album Exile On Main Street.

Doug

 

[gns]

Always liked the cd, This Land, by Bill Frisell (with Don Byron). And the Walker Evans on the cover too...

 

[mwooten]

Mapplethorpe did the photography on Television's Marquee Moon.