1000 Record Covers

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The footprint is smaller than A4 but it made it easier for me to hold and so I'm more than happy with the format. This gives the advantage of enabling one to see correspondences, similarities, visual echoes between individual designs that can be fruitfully mined for their contemporary social and psychological significance. Would have loved to know a bit more about some of the more famous artworks and their respective designers. About the series Bibliotheca Universalis - Compact cultural companions celebrating the eclectic TASCHEN universe! They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples.

To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Michael Ochs has been an obsessive music since the 1950 and this book provides a sampling of the 100,000 or so albums that he owns.vinyl); elsewhere unusually-shaped types and picture discs (the latter have been appearing since the 1940s (of which two examples are shown). A fascinating survey of cover art (TASCHEN's 25th anniversary special edition) Record covers are a sign of our life and times. This edition of "Record Covers" presents a selection of the best rock album covers of the 60s to 90s from music archivist, disc jockey, journalist, and former record-publicity executive Michael Ochs' enormous private collection.

The Five Keys cover is rare because the thimb on the far left might have been misunderstood as an exposed penis. My first job literally for the first month was sitting in a room with this one other guy and going through and pricing the entire Michael Ochs collection.Ochs provides interesting bits of information here and there, such as that picture albums were first produced in the 1940s. Although I do see the funny irony in celebrating the art of the LP sleeve by reducing the reproductions to about a quarter of the size of a cd cover. They are roughly grouped by the decade (1960s, 1970s, and 1980s-early1990s: all getting a short introduction), some appearing in other decade than their own.