Re: (TV) Cover Art/Mapplethorpe

[Maurice Rickard <maurice@mac.com>]

At 7:34 AM -0500 3/8/02, Run35@aol.com wrote:
> With Robert Mapplethorpe the photographer how could you go wrong.
> I think the cover of Adventure is a work of Art.

I really do like the cover of Adventure (Gerrit van der Meer, I 
think), but I love the cover of Marquee Moon--the color shifts and 
graininess of the color Xerox are just exquisite.  And I'll admit 
that for a few years I thought of Mapplethorpe as "the guy who did 
the Marquee Moon cover...wonder what he's up to these days."  (This, 
of course, was before the NEA/Jesse Helms controversies...)

Other good ones in the canon: Words from the Front, Flash Light, Warm 
and Cool.  Spinning completely OT, some of the best cover art I've 
seen recently has been from Thingmakers (they did JRLP's first three 
discs) and Steve Byram (doing covers for Tim Berne's Screwgun 
releases).   And let's have a moment of silence for Fireproof Press 
(beautiful letterpress covers for Shellac, June of '44, Tortoise, 
many others).
--
Maurice Rickard
http://mauricerickard.com/
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