The artist must find his instrument to express what’s inside of him; something able to transform an internal emotion to an external symbolic expression of that emotion. Andy Summers, best known as the lead guitarist of the Police, found two instruments: guitar and photo camera. In this post we talk about Andy Summers as photographer,…

We can consider Stanley Donwood (his real name is Dan Rickwood) the hidden member of Radiohead, the one who give a visual form to the music of the band that probably more than every other represents our contemporary times. Stan and Thom Yorke are friends since their college days and the first time that Thom…

This post is to let you have a visual trip into the Roger Dean’s world. He is an English artist, designer and publisher but he is mainly known as one of the guru of album covers. His dreaming artworks characterized many albums of Asia and Yes which led him to fame, but he also “dressed”…

Peter Saville was the brain behind much of the album artworks for Factory Records. His elegance, clearness and simplicity in visualizing music touched his best in Joy Division’s Unknown Pleasure artwork, where he represented the signal of a death star on a dark background. Peter Saville had a key role on the Manchaster music scene…

Soon or later every good music addicted get in touch with one of this two milestones of music history: Bitches Brew by Miles Davies and Abraxas by Carlos Santana, both relased in 1970. What links these two records at first sight is their artwork by Mati Klarwein. Born in Hamburg in 1932 by a Jewish…