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Art Storm Thorgerson Pinkfloyd 2008 Art:Storm Thorgerson/PinkFloyd 2008 05/06/2011 11:58 home For forty years Storm Thorgerson’s album covers and films have created the visual londongrip images we associate not only with the Bedfordshire international greatest rock bands, such as Pink Floyd, but Photographer cultural magazine with our times. London Grip was at the launch Awesome of the artist and film-maker’s latest to subscribe Wedding and email publication. Portrait [email protected] __________________________ Photography by James McClean www.JamesMcClean.… S T O R M THORGERSON Pink Floyd Back Catalogue (1994) Signed Framed email: [email protected] MIND OVER MATTER: UKs Leading THE IMAGES OF Provider of Signed P I N K F L O Y D Authentic Merchandise. Buy Now __________________________ www.musicpicturedisc… Mind Over Matter book jacket by Storm Thorgerson with Peter Curzon. Packshot Because we are such visual animals, it is Photography primarily by remembered images that we W1 determine our generational and Professional geographical identity. We look about us, packshots in fix upon objects or their representations, London, and in so far as it is possible, know who magazines, we are. If I see a woman in a crinoline, I catalogues & know something’s up. If I see a little green websites homunculus, I know something’s gone www.nohalide.com down. Best London Concerts What’s remarkable about Storm Up to 50% off the Thorgerson’s legendary album covers is Capital's Top that while they were designed as supposed Entertainment, Wish You Were Here (Liner bag) (1975) adjuncts to the music inside them and have Sign Up & Enjoy! become identified with those bands, the KelkooSelect.co.uk/co… pictures have achieved, consistently and repeatedly over forty years, a separate life A Saucerful of Secrets (1968) of their own. They have been reproduced in their millions, poured over by millions. Most of us never stop to think that those Asian Wedding pictures were conjured into being by the Photography intelligence and hard labour of essentially Award winning one person. It’s startling to consider that photographer it’s possible for art collectors to hang on Stylish Modern their walls the originals of these icons of Wedding our age. Photography www.melgiovanni.com Any number of Storm’s album covers for Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Genesis, Phish, Paul McCartney, Wishbone Ash, or Designer innumerable other bands, have become Furniture familiar even to those of us who are Exquisite designs made affordable. neither rock aficionados nor memorabilia The Dark Side of the Moon (1973) Order top designs geeks. So not only might one say that he today and save! was a member of Pink Floyd, but that he www.fashion4home.c… Wish You Were Here (1975) has always been a force unto himself to which Floyd usually had the wit to conjoin itself. Concert Tickets It’s often the rule that non-literary artists ... -70% speak through their work and have little to See the Stars live say for themselves. This isn’t true of Storm in London ... Get Ticket-Coupons - who has an idiosyncratic, funny, fearlessly Save 70% now ! verbal turn of mind. www.GROUPON.co.u… Since a feature of his surreal work is that it’s based on photographs of real constructions, his descriptions of the Anish Kapoor: thinking and the set-ups behind each shot Flashback are entertaining in themselves. It is as well Opens 5th March that the books about his work are never At Manchester Art just a catalogue of images but have as Gallery Sponsored By Investec much text and transcription of interviews www.InvestecSPB.co.… as one needs. High Hopes (1994) - single. Storm Thorgerson signing books at the exhibition of original works and launch of Mind The image used for Dark Side of the Moon Over Matter at Elms Lesters Painting Rooms, is the one for which Storm is perhaps most London.. Photo: P. Morris famous, the one most often referred to as an “iconic” image of our time. In an Great Actors interview with Gary Graff in Guitar World, Headshots Storm once described shooting the Most Stylish photograph at the pyramids in the middle Photography in Town! Positive, of the night: “I hired a taxi at 2 o'clock http://www.londongrip.com/LondonGrip/Art%3AStorm_Thorgerson_PinkFloyd_2008.html Page 1 of 2 Art:Storm Thorgerson/PinkFloyd 2008 05/06/2011 11:58 Fun & Relaxed a.m. to take me out to the pyramids. So www.michaeldavidsmi… there I am, thinking I'll be fine, and I put the camera on the tripod to do a long-time exposure. It's a wonderful, clear night, and the moon is fantastic. So I'm doing it...and The Rock Box then, at like 4 o'clock a.m., these figures Buy the amazing come walking across - soldiers, with guns. I box including REO thought, ‘This is it. The game is up - young Speedwagon & other rock photographer dies a strange death in a Storm Thorgerson and Nick Mason of Pink Floyd at legends. the exhibition of works and book launch of Mind Over foreign land.’ I was actually really scared. Matter . Photo: P. Morris www.amazon.co.uk/ro… Of course, all my fears were unfounded. They were really very friendly. They wanted a bit of bakshish, a little bit of London Film money to go away. They kindly pointed out Shine On (1992) and TV Studio that where I stood was actually a firing Drive in U-Shaped range, and they'd come to tell me it wasn't Infinity Cove very cool for me to be there. If I was there Green Screen first thing in the morning, I might get a Studios West bullet up my butt.” London www.filmscapemedia.… To mark forty years of designing album covers and directing film and videos for Asian Wedding Pink Floyd, this big, new and much Photography extended volume about Storm’s work for Wedding the band, co-authored with Peter Curzon, Photography & has been published by Hipgnosis and Storm Video 020 300 49 Studios: Mind over Matter: the Images of 666, 07809381826 Pink Floyd - a huge and phenomenal book www.asianweddingph… in every sense. The Division Bell: Metal Heads (1994) Animals (1977) (USA release cover) The 15 metre high/1500 kg heads While photographing this image, the inflatable are now in the Rock ‘n Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, pig broke free from its mooring over Battersea Ohio. Power Station and entered official air space. Heathrow air-traffic controllers were legally P.M. obliged to alert aircraft to the danger of encountering a flying pig. _____________ December 2007 http://www.londongrip.com/LondonGrip/Art%3AStorm_Thorgerson_PinkFloyd_2008.html Page 2 of 2.
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