#Storm Thorgerson

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Storm Thorgerson

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Storm Thorgerson

[more-relics]

Rick Wright, David Gilmour, Roger Waters & Nick Sedgwick Backgammon backstage at the Usher Hall, Edinburgh, British Winter tour, November 1974. Photos: Storm Thorgerson/Aubrey Powell

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Have You Got It Yet? The Story of Syd Barrett and Pink Floyd (Roddy Bogawa & Storm Thorgerson, 2023).

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© Storm Thorgerson

[jeffreymeowmont]

Some photos I took last week from Pink Floyd's "Their Mortal Remains" exhibition.

[quiet-desperationn]

A Saucerful of Secrets (1968)

"Naiveté and enthusiasm are great bedfellows. I plunged into the cover for Saucerful without a second thought. I didn’t know any better and what doubts I had were soon engulfed by waves of keenness. I was so keen, it was sickening. [...] In conversation with the Floyd it seemed that the best way to ‘represent’ the music visually was to show some of the things they were interested in and to present them in a manner resonant with the music. Marvel comics, astrology, alchemy, swirling patterns, outer space and infra red weird photography, were thrown together like an immiscible oil and water bubble slide at an early Floyd gig, superimposed upon each other, drifting around in a dreamlike fashion, not a million miles away from certain minor hallucinatory states that are alleged to result from taking narcotic substances. In retrospect I feel the manner was more relevant than the contents. Complex photographic vignetting, now so easy with graphic Paintbox or Photoshop, was very different then, especially in colour printing, which had to be done in the pitch dark. [...] Much of Hipgnosis’ early work is the result of messing about in the darkroom without being weighed down by knowledge or preconceptions. Maybe it was all those fumes from the fixative. [...] Our confection, our bag of goodies, for Saucerful included some original marbling care of the great Shropshire Mystic John Whiteley and the dimly perceived figure of Dr Strange, natty dresser and wily magician, crosser of thresholds and explorer of the mind. Amidst the stars, planets and zodiacal charts lurk the band photographed in infra red weird colour type film. Superimpositions abound, indicating the lessening of boundaries between states, old limitations removed, as one event or feeling merges with another— cascades of experience like the cascading Floyd music. Fish eye lenses and dislocated colour lends further disruption to normality, whilst locations hike Kew Gardens’ glasshouse and fashion accessories including long hair, moody hats and bright scarves, further enhance the sense of heightened perception often called psychedelic, or mind-expanding. Something different, out of the norm, a view over the garden wall…"

Storm Thorgerson on Mind Over Matter (1997)

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Storm Thorgerson - Syd Barrett

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David Gilmour, Storm Thorgerson, Roger Waters

[cosmonautroger]

Storm Thorgerson, The Cranberries, Bury The Hatchet, 1999

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[more-relics]

Storm Thorgerson on the set of the film 'Tune' at the Royal College of Art film studio, where he was studying Film and Television at the time. London, 9th March 1967. Photos by Chris Morphet.

[pinkfloydbt]

Storm Thorgerson and Roger Waters

Screenshot from SQUARING THE CIRCLE (The Story of Hipgnosis) 🎥 2022 - Dir. Anton Corbjin

[mothanddust]

Storm Thorgerson — Tree of Half Life, 2003

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David And Polly getting married at Westminster Register Office in 1994, 29 years ago today. His best man was his teenage friend and the Pink Floyd album artwork designer Storm Thorgerson seated next to David. Happy Anniversary!! 🎧

[cannedbluesblog]

David Gilmour & Storm Thorgerson