David Byrne on Packaging and Music
Interesting piece on coverart by David Byrne (ex-Talking Heads) in Nonesuch Journal:
journal.nonesuch.com: Packaging and Music: “Packaging and Music
By David Byrne
David Byrne recently posted this article in his own journal and is generously allowing Nonesuch to publish it as well.
There are those who mourn the vanishing of the nice big cardboard packages that vinyl came in. The format allowed fairly large images, credits, and photos. The usual assumption is that much of this imagery, like music videos, is a reflection of, and extension of, the music creator’s sensibility. As if the packaging and the videos were usually under the direct control of the author. This is absurd. Though pop artists attempted to wrestle control of the way they were presented from the distributors beginning in the 60s, most LPs design, and musi”
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(Via journal.nonesuch.com.)