Peter Gabriel Artwork (oder "Was'n da vorne drauf?")

Ich finde die Anmerkungen zu einigen der Covers interesant. Ich hoffe mal das ist jetzt kein Urheberrechtsverstoß wenn ich das hier mal zusammentrage.

Peter Gabriel Limited Edition Artwork - Hypergallery

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Peter Gabriel 1 (Car)
Design and Photography by Storm Thorgerson and Hipgnosis

Storm describes for Hypergallery how the cover was inspired by a rainy cab journey though Trafalgar Square:

"On the bonnet of this vehicle sat myriad drops that were being shaken by the vibrating cab... I thought, "That looks cool, can I duplicate it one day?" Which is how Peter Gabriel came to be sitting, looking furtive in the front seat of my beloved Lancia Flavia which had been heavily dowsed with a garden hose, the car not Peter, I hasten to add. I feel that what makes this shot distinctive is the hand colouring (the blue) and the fact that each individual highlight was scraped clean with a scalpel by a very patient Richard Manning. This low-key portrait approach was a credit to Peter Gabriel's modesty. He appeared similarly obscured in the next two albums namely Melt and Tear, in which the designs were more concerned with idea, mood, and evocation than with cosmetics and how good looking we made him. Don't get me wrong...he's not bad looking, is our Pete. Sanity rather than vanity."

Peter Gabriel 2 (Scratch)
Design and Artwork by Storm Thorgerson

The photo, by Hipgnosis photographer Peter Christopherson, was taken down town in New York on a cold and windy day, a couple of blocks away from where Peter would later buy an apartment. The 2D/3D concept was a recurring theme for Hipgnosis studios at the time. Here, Peter is thrusting his hands out of the picture and back onto the photo surface, scratching it into strips.

Peter recalls, “The artwork was done with Hypnosis. We did this in New York and it was cold and snowy. Storm had had the idea of the nails tearing away at the paper of the image."

Hipgnosis simply glued strips of torn paper on to the original monotone image and used Tippex to ‘tart up the joins’.

Peter Gabriel 3 (Melt)
Design and Artwork by Storm Thorgerson

The original cover came about when Storm introduced Peter to the work that Les Krims was doing with Polaroids. They began experimenting with hundreds of Polaroids, having fun squashing, squeezing and smearing the developing images, a technique later known as Krimsography. The unsettling yet startling results were then re-photographed with B/W film, as Storm describes,

“The cover for the vinyl album was in black and white. This is the colour Polaroid from which it was taken, without further adornment. In later years we came to prefer it.”

Peter Gabriel recalls, “There was a photographer called Les Krims, who discovered that if you take a Polaroid and you squash it you can get the colours to run, and we used to go after them with different objects and sort of burnt matches and coins and fingers and all sorts of things and it was, it was a lot of fun 'cause you had to get the timing right, but you got some wonderful effects out of the distortions."


Peter Gabriel 4 (Security)
Design and Photography by Malcolm Poynter

The sleeve art is from an experimental video Peter directed with the sculptor Malcolm Poynter, with professional help from his editor friend, David Gardner. The front features one of Malcolm’s sculptures while the back captures stills of Peter’s face (left) from the same project.

“My memory of this project, which was crucially pre Photoshop, was us dragging around Flexi Mirrors and Fresnel Lenses, and some sculptures, and then having a very creative (if chaotic) time.” Malcolm Poynter.


So
Design and Photography by Peter Saville and Trevor Key

To create this Peter Gabriel cover, designer Peter Saville and master typographer Brett Wickens worked with the photographer Trevor Key and Peter to develop something that was simple, fresh, black and white. Partly influenced by David Bailey’s work, it has since become a design classic.

Shaking the Tree
Design and Photography by Robert Mapplethorpe

The original photo session was at Mapplethorpe’s New York loft studio. He spent some time getting to know Peter and during the session got him talking about many subjects of which he was passionate. Mapplethorpe explained that he felt his subjects revealed more of themselves when talking about things they loved. At a time when many portrait artists were looking for vulnerability, Mapplethorpe was looking for confidence. The photo selected for the album cover was initially used for the cover of Rolling Stone Magazine.


Passion
Design and Artwork by Julian Grater

Peter Gabriel's Passion cover art was the work of Julian Grater who'd just finished a body of work for his first major solo show that included a series of brutally dark and psychologically rendered drawings. One of these was selected by Peter Gabriel for the album cover of the soundtrack for a Martin Scorsese film The Last Temptation of Christ. Peter felt that it resonated in a powerful way with the rich, cultural fusion of the music. This creative partnership was to prove enormously successful with the album sleeve art work awarded album cover of the year 1989.


Us
Design and Photography by David Scheinmann

David Scheinmann told Hypergallery about the making of this image: "Peter made his decision to work with me without really having an image in mind, just a willingness to trust in a process that would lead us there. Lengthy discussions and brainstorming [lead] to a desire to make an image with a contemporary art/performance art influence. I knew the album was hewn from Peter's own experiences in relationships and aptly entitled 'Us'. When he told me of his appreciation of the power and simplicity of expanses of colour in Rothko's work we were on our way. What emerged was ... a physical space in the dominant color of red in which Peter in a blue/cyan suit dipped in pure pigment would be trying to embrace or lunge at a kind of ephemeral intangible female form. The naked female figure in the shot (my downstairs neighbour at the time) was Peter's idea and he wanted to get across the idea of grasping at all that is illusory in relationships. Many frames were shot on varying long time exposures in order to find that sweet moment where everything was blurred just enough by movement save for Peter's face. That day it was indeed like recording a piece of performance art. The white outline that appears around Peter actually happened in camera as the red and blue combined during as a result of Peters movement during time exposure. For me the image is a wonderful combination of organic and honest photography maximised through the latest technology at the time serving a clear artistic and emotional sentiment."


Secret World Live
Design and Photography by Danny Jenkins

The themes of the Secret World tour were communication and relationships. The concept for the album cover was to evoke the portion of the Secret World live show where Peter would hold the telephone receiver aloft and arose partly out of Peter's interest in the way sound waves create patterns.

Danny Jenkins recollects, “I have always been interested in making images and had amassed an extensive collection of 80s office detritus for my digital montages [...] The core photograph of the album was shot in my studio back yard with my Pentax K1000 camera [...] The receiver was randomly picked from a pile of phones and the hand actually belongs to my long-suffering studio assistant Becky Jemmett. It was pure luck and chance that the phone and hand were a convincing enough match for Peter’s on-stage version." Danny Jenkins


OVO
Design and Photography by Nils-Udo

Nils-Udo talked to Hypergallery about the work created for the Ovo cover: “My first contact with Peter Gabriel was a phone call from him asking me if I would be interested in creating a cover for a new project that was in conception. He was aware of my work and invited me to the Real World Studios in Box in England to discuss the project. The meeting went very well and it was arranged for me to return to Box to carry out the installation.
I created the nest on the pond at Real World. It was supported by tree trunks, so was a very heavy structure. I was very pleased with this installation, but of course it couldn’t stay in place on the pond, so was moved to Peter’s garden nearby. Unfortunately the gardener was unsure of what to do with it, so set it on fire. I was not too upset by this as much of my work is transient and the record is the photograph I take.”

OVO is the soundtrack for the live Millennium Dome Show in London in 2000.

"It (Ovo) layers Asian, African, Middle Eastern, Australian and European elements against a mostly contemporary British backdrop. From 12th century hurdy gurdy to didgeridoo, from the pulsing rhythms of the Dhol Foundation and the nostalgic brass of the Black Dyke Band, from Arab laments over drum and bass to meditative moments with string section - the soundtrack is a really eclectic mix. It is also a story of forbidden love." Peter Gabriel

The stunning cover for this album was created by Nil-Udo and is an outstanding example of this artist's ephemeral creations in nature.


Up
Design and Photography by Susan Derges

Photographed by Susan Derges at her studio in Devon, England, a blurred portrait of Peter faces the viewer directly; his image is reflected and contorted over and over in water droplets, which are literally frozen in mid-air using a strobe light.

“An image is always the briefest, frozen moment of a continuous stream of events, and mysteriously we somehow always make them what they are to us. So when Peter came to the studio to record the cover image and we started to play with this musical jet of vibrating water, the unexpected and magical happened. Droplets captured images of his face, splashed across the palm of his hand and I seem to remember at one point a fire eating sequence that was fairly crazy but not as good as the portrait we ended up with and the hand that we also used on the album was an inspired moment just before he left the studio. It was a good day” - Susan Derges - Recollections from a day with Peter and making the cover image of UP.

Scratch My Back
Design and Photography by Stephen Gschmeissner and Marc Bessant

Stephen Gschmeissner discovered this image via a scanning electron microscope which uses a finely focused beam of electrons to construct a 3D image of each specimen that can be magnified up to a million times.

Designer Marc Bessant who selected and developed the image expands; “I was struck by how simple, honest and sensuous the music was sounding with just the two elements - Peter and the strings. ‘Two’ was important - two parts, two acts, two songs, two albums - a shared experience, one dependent on the other. I wanted the images and colours to be seductive and sensual (touching on sexual), perhaps even a little tense, a relationship between one another. The eventual micrograph of corpuscles was perfect - so graceful and calm, yet with all the passionate, fleshy associations that blood carries.” Marc Bessant.

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Wußte nicht wohin also hier den Thread ausgegraben (gerade im Spiegel gelesen):

Der Macher des Covers vom dritten PG Album ist Tod, der Kerl (Storm Thorgerson) hat auch das DSOTM Cover von Pink Floyd und viele mehr entworfen:

Pink Floyd- und Led Zeppelin-Coverdesigner Storm Thorgerson gestorben - SPIEGEL ONLINE

PS: In der Bildserie vom Spiegel steht auch, das er das And Then There Were Three Cover für Genesis entworfen hat.

Zitat von genesis

Der Macher des Covers vom dritten PG Album ist Tod, der Kerl (Storm Thorgerson) hat auch das DSOTM Cover von Pink Floyd und viele mehr entworfen:

Ich würde nicht soweit gehen und Storm Thorgerson als den Tod zu bezeichnen, ich würde ihn eher tot nennen...

Storm Thorgerson war ja der Haus-und-Hof-Designer bei Pink Floyd und hat so ziemlich alle Veröffentlichungen "designt".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storm_Thorgerson

dann interessiert euch das vllt:

Storm Thorgerson Dies At 69 | News | Prog Magazine

demnächst gibt's dann einen Film:

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Bin darauf aufmerksam geworden, als ich vor 2 Wochen in San Francisco an einer Ausstellung vorbeigelaufen bin. Wer zugreifen möchte:

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