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Hugely talented, had a massive influence on me and many others. RIP
Sad news indeed. An amazing legacy to leave behind though.
An utter creative genius! In a refreshingly bonkers way
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It doesn't get much better than that really. Some truly iconic stuff! He was a massive influence. Very sad 🙁
Another brick in our cultural wall gone.
An utter creative genius!
That pretty much says it all.
Wish you were here, best album cover of all time.
Its the ambition of his work that's staggering! Before the days where you could photoshop or CGI stuff, he would put such a huge amount of work in to constructing what were effectively theatre sets, just to then just capture one stunning visual image. That's commitment
Cool name as well.
If that's his real name... maybe he got "creative genius" from his parents?
Born with it or acquired ... his talent not his name ... Nature or nurtured
Before the days where you could photoshop or CGI stuff
Yes. That's actually a stunt man who is actually on fire.
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Got this 2nd hand for a quid the other day - picture doesn't really do its gatefold glory justice
Yes. That's actually a stunt man who is actually on fire.
I thought that was a sarcastic comment at first, but a bit of help from Google and I am educated 🙂
Sad news indeed...
WYWH has amazing photography, the fella doing a handstand in the lake until the ripples had disappated.
Very sad at his passing, his art and design genius pretty much illustrated the soundtrack to my life through the 70's and 80's.
What a legacy to leave behind, though.
Great excuse to show Dark Side of the moon's album cover to students at work.
Actually all very relevant. Uppers are doing chromatic aberration and lowers are doing refraction
Ironically the cover of Pink Floyd's Animals album, which most of the obits are using to illustrate his work, wasn't his idea. Thorgerson made some proposals to the band for the album cover but they didn't like any of them. Roger Waters pedalled round south London on his bike taking photos and took some photos of Battersea power station and came up with the idea of flying a pig over it as a symbol of hope. Hipgnosis then agreed to stage the shoot. Thorgerson later included the Animals album cover in a book of Hipgnosis artwork and Waters fell out with him as it was his idea. Waters never worked with him again.