Ugo
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Posted: Aug. 19 2006, 18:00 |
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I think Wayfarer up here is right... the photo looks very like it's a stock image. In the summer of 1999 almost the same thing happened here in Italy: a magazine ad for a computer company (I think it was HP) featured a photo picturing an old woman who "caught" lightning streaks with a metal rod, and an old man holding glass jars with lightning inside. The photo was quite good [it looked like a Storm Thorgerson kind of thing, but it wasn't his...  ], but it already appeared before as a photographic work of art, not linked to anything. Then, some months later, Italian singer Renato Zero issued an album which used the very same photo as the cover - an Italian designer had replaced the old man's head with Zero's. No one protested, not even the original author of the photo (he or she wasn't even quoted on the booklet). So... I guess this was a stock image. [You can see the album cover here... maybe someone can help me find the original photo?  ]
P.S. Talking about Storm Thorgerson: I've no clue on how many reworks, reinterpretations and just simple copies of his "Dark side of the Moon" prism logo exist around the world. I know I've seen at least twenty of them. Thorgerson himself knows about this (he said so in an interview), but ne never issued a formal claim or anything.
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Ugo C. - a devoted Amarokian
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