The Art of Album Covers
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Outtakes from the Pixies 'Monkey Gone to Heaven' cover shoot.
Photos Simon Larbalestier.
Released 1989 The Art of Album Covers
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The Stryga, arguably Notre Dame's most famous chimera.
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Used by @remhq on Chronic Town, released on this day in 1982.
Happy 40th birthday

The Ghosts of Christmas past #AdventCalendar - Day 1.
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2 girls stand by their 17ft snowman in Aberdeen, Scotland 1962.
Image: Popperfoto The Ghosts of Christmas past #AdventCalendar - Day 2.
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Kids in Manchester rolling a huge snowball, 1968.
Photo Shirley Baker

'Hufelandstrasse, 1055 Berlin' is Harf Zimmermann’s 1986–87 series of portraits of the people and places of Hufelandstrasse, a bustling neighborhood street in the heart of Berlin. For over a year, Zimmermann photographed almost daily on the street with his large-format camera, asking shop-owners and residents if he could take their picture. Hufelandstrasse was then home to a varied cross-section of citizens of the German Democratic Republic

Kate Simon was born in New York in 1953. She developed an interest in photography at an early age after her father gave her a Polaroid camera. In 1972, Kate moved to London and started work for various magazines and as a tour photographer.
Here are some of those images The Clash, London, 1976
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“Bernie Rhodes asked me to take some photographs of these good friends who were The Clash. I went over to where they were rehearsing, and I'd no idea it was for the cover. They were natural subjects, so I really couldn’t miss.”

Some of my photos from various indy get togethers have been used by @AUOBALBA in a 15 month calendar. If interested it can be bought via the link below.
📸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿❤
auob.org/shop/calendar-… An @AUOBALBA march in
Glasgow, May 2019.

In 1981, aged 25, Paul Graham started his first serious project. The concept was to travel up and down the A1, the 410-mile road that stretches the length of the UK from London to Edinburgh, and capture the people and places he came across.
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Here's some of those images Cafe Assistants, Compass Cafe Colsterworth, Lincolnshire, November 1982.
Photo Paul Graham

Here's a few of Margaret Fay Shaw images of a traditional Hebridean Halloween, South Uist, Scotland in 1932. Margaret was fascinated with local folklore customs and in 1932 she decided to take images, still and film, of the local children as they dressed up to celebrate Halloween or Oidhche nan Cleas (‘Night of Tricks’).

Scottish photographer @simonmurphy7 has been photographing the residents of Glasgow's Govanhill, highlighting and celebrating the diversity the area he once called home.
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I will post a few of those images in this thread, if you like what you see, please give Simon a follow. 📸 When I ask, most people say yes to having their portrait taken. My interest in them is perhaps based simply on me liking the jumper or shoes that they are wearing, but it comes from within, it’s genuine, and people read you very quickly - @simonmurphy7
Merik, a Performance Artist

The Art of Album Covers.
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A Buck Rogers XZ-38 Disintegrator Pistol, manufactured in 1935 by Daisy.
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Used by Foo Fighters on their self titled debut studio album, released on July 4th, 1995 The Art of Album Covers
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Photographer Robert Freeman was showing the Beatles potential images for the Rubber Soul album. He was projecting a portrait against cardboard when the cardoard fell back distorting the image.

McCartney said, “we felt that image fitted perfectly.”

Ernest Cole was born in South Africa’s Transvaal in 1940. In his book: House of Bondage – published in 1967, he was the 1st photojournalist to highlight the daily realities, humiliations, and horrors of apartheid to the outside world.
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Here are some of those images. 'During group medical examinations the men are herded through a string of doctors’ offices.
South Africa. 1960. © Ernest Cole

On the back of todays events in George Square and the following comment yesterday from one of my followers:

'The idea that “my nationalism is better then yours” is a narcissistic fantasy I’m afraid'

I wanted to highlight a few home truths.
A Thread - Anum Qaisar, the general secretary of the Muslim Friends of Labour, organised a mock referendum vote at the University of Strathclyde in 2014 for Muslim students. She herself went into the debate convinced she would vote to stay part of the union.

John Claridge was born in Plaistow, London in 1944 and began taking photos of the East End as a teenager in the 1960s. 
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Here are some of those images.
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Self-Portrait with Keith, E7, 1961.
Claridge was 17 in this photo. H Goldstein butchers, 1966.

‘These two brothers owned the butcher’s shop. After I had taken the photograph I mentioned that they must have done well today as there was only one chicken left. One of the brothers replied “No! We only have one chicken!”’

Photograph: John Claridge

No one is born racist.
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Middlesbrough, 1970s
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Photo Robin Dale No one is born racist
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London 1973–1975.
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Photo Simon Pope

Astrid Kirchherr - 20th May 1938 - 12th May 2020
#RIP 📷⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Self Portrait, 1960 Boys Outside of The Cavern Club, Liverpool, 1964.
Photo Astrid Kirchherr

In 1979 Derek Bishton, Brian Homer and John Reardon created a pop up photography studio on the street in Handsworth, Birmingham. They invited passers-by to take their own photograph, passing them the shutter release so they could control the process of representation. Steppers - AKA Ting A Ling - now runs a youth project in Handsworth, “For a 13-year-old boy, it was fascinating, that kind of thing never happened in Handsworth.”

Born in Chicago in 1946, Wayne Sorce studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

In the 1970s and ‘80s, Sorce explored the urban landscapes of New York and Chicago with his large format camera, he are a few of the images.

Varick Street, New York, 1984. East Chigaco, 1977

Thomas Annan (born Dairsie, Fife 1829) was a Scottish photographer, notable for being the first to record the bad housing conditions of the poor. In 1866 he was commissioned to make photographic records of the condemned streets and wynds of Glasgow.

Thomas Annan, ca 1855 In 1811 Glasgow had a population of approximately 100k by the mid 1840s this had almost tripled to just under 300k. Life expectancy in the slums plummeted, in the 1830s and 1840s it was 27: the lowest it had been since the Black Death.

Plate 1: Old vennel off High Street 1868.

Elizabeth Cotten was left handed yet played a guitar strung for a right-handed player, she played the guitar upside down, this required her to play the bass lines with her fingers and the melody with her thumb.
Clip from TV show 'Guitar Guitar' in 1969.
#InternationalWomensDay Elizabeth was born in 1893 and started playing at age 7, she was self taught. While working briefly in a department store, Cotten helped a child wandering through the aisles find her mother. The child was Peggy Seeger, and the mother was the composer Ruth Crawford Seeger.  #IWD

While working as projectionist in an adult cinema called The Office Cinema in 1970s / 80s London, Bob Mazzer began photographing the people on the tube during his daily commute, more often at night.
Here are some of those images. Bob Mazzer is a self-proclaimed Captain Beefheart disciple and photographer. His commute was from King's Cross to Manor House.

In 1970, photographer Chris Morphet (pictured below) travelled to the Shetland Isles to document the Fair Isle industry.
Here are some of those images. The start of the production line...

The Art of Album Covers.
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Southend, 1977.
From Chris Steele-Perkins book 'Teds'
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Used by Ian Dury And The Blockheads on 'Sueperman's Big Sister'.
Released on Stiff Records, 1980 The Art of Album Covers
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David Wojnarowicz’s “Buffalo” is one of the most haunting artistic responses to the AIDS crisis of the 1980s. Made in the wake of his own HIV-positive diagnosis, evoking feelings of doom and hopelessness. #RIP
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Used by U2 on the 1992 release 'One'