Artistic album covers

Andy Warhol:

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FACT 75 (May 1983). Painting by Henri Fantin-Latour (design by Peter Saville).

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Not bad either

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I’ve always quite liked the Alt J cover - nice pattern, its a radar image of the Ganges river delta apparently.
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FACT 10 (June 1979), design by Peter Saville. The now-famous image was taken from The Cambridge Encyclopaedia of Astronomy and is an illustration (colours reversed) of the intensity of successive radio pulses from pulsar CP-919, created by astronomer Harold Craft.

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You could probably include most Factory or 4AD covers in this thread

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Case in point from 4AD
La Mystere des voix Bulgares

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Also Harvest record covers, and Hipgnosis artwork - quick Google will find many.

Meanwhile another of possible interest, though the effect is simple infrared false colour film photography:

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Hard to beat Mapplethorpe’s iconic portrait of Patti.

Behind rock’s finest album cover: A timeless friendship - BBC Culture.

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An artistic version by my 9yo son done in 10m:)

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Not bad at all - I couldn’t do that regardless of time!

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I prefer the image on the album I have, Easter!

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Here are just a couple of my favourites in no specific order …

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Obscured by Clouds, PF

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Cracking cover this one!

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I recognise that face!

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I think that belongs in the bizarre rather than artistic category!

The mind truly boggles.

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Same here to be honest.