A new exhibition at The Photographers' Gallery in London celebrates the art of the album cover, and includes records by music legends such as Diana Ross, Miles Davis, and The Rolling Stones. The exhibition includes more than 200 covers, and focuses on highlighting the role photography plays in defining artists and bands.
Photography & the Art of the Album Cover will be on display at The Photographers' Gallery, London from 8 April until 12 June 2022.
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The most memorable and famous album covers add an element of coolness to the music that can turn a great album into a transcendent one. Some of the greatest album covers are the most basic. When Andy Warhol designed the Velvet Underground & Nico, no one outside of the artist himself would have associated a banana with that band. Now they do. Here's your chance to vote for the best album covers of all time.
Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon, is another album that achieved greater fame thanks to it's cover. It turned the prism into an iconic image and is one of the best rock album covers.
Perhaps the most iconic album cover of all - the design for The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - was created by British pop artist Peter Blake, and he was also behind the sleeve for Band Aid's Do They Know It's Christmas?, the second biggest-selling single of all time in the UK (after Elton John's Candle in the Wind 1997). Blake was a tutor at the Royal College of Art in London and counted Ian Dury among his students in the mid-60s. Blake painted him for the cover of Dury's 1977 debut album, New Boots and Panties!!, and he also created the sleeve for 2009's Staring Down the Barrel by The Blockheads, Dury's band.
