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Album cover for the North American release of Are You Experienced (1967) by the Jimi Hendrix Experience. An album cover (also referred to as album art) is the front packaging art of a commercially released studio album or other audio recordings. The term can refer to: the printed paperboard covers typically used to package:
The album was also released as two single LPs, Wheels of Fire (In the Studio) and Wheels of Fire (Live at the Fillmore), with similar cover art. In the UK the studio album art was black print on aluminum foil, while the live album art was a negative image of the studio cover; In the Studio charted as high as No. 7 in that country, [12] although ...
There have been numerous books documenting album cover art, particularly rock and jazz album covers. [8] [9] [10] Steinweiss was an art director and graphic designer who brought custom artwork to record album covers and invented the first packaging for long-playing records. [7]
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The album cover shows a group of middle-aged nudists posing in the middle of a forest. The group consists of five women and three men. The album cover was completely pixelated for its iTunes release, [21] and many online news outlets overlaid a black box over the explicit areas. [22] The replacement cover for Ritual de lo Habitual.
An album (Latin albus, white), in ancient Rome, was a board chalked or painted white, on which decrees, edicts, and other public notices were inscribed in black.It was from this that in medieval and modern times, album came to denote a book of blank pages in which verses, autographs, sketches, photographs and the like are collected. [9]
The Grammy Award for Best Album Cover dates back to the first Grammy Awards in 1959. From 1962 to 1965 it was separated into Classical and Non-Classical divisions. From 1966 to 1968 it was separated into Graphic Arts and Photography divisions. In 1974, the name of the award was changed to Best Album Package, and changed again in 1994 to the ...
This is for articles about record albums, categorized by the album cover artist. For the category of fair use images of album cover art, see Category:Album covers by visual artist Subcategories