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The Beginner's Guide To Throwing Shapes - Album Cover
Photograph Print Size 11x14” (27x35 cm). Actual Image Size within 8x10" (20x25 cm) with borders. Price includes Cdn Sales Tax. Click Q&A menu for Order Details prior to ordering.
C$80.00
THE BEGINNER'S GUIDE TO THROWING SHAPES ~ Vinyl Album Cover. This was the biggest photo project I’d every attempted. I've shown the Photo here without the Title or Band Name. Seventy photos for the front cover of SAGA's album entitled, “The Beginner’s Guide to Throwing Shapes.” (how it got it’s title name is found in SAGA’s 40th Anniversary Book) I photographed our friends, our families, past photo-shoot models, musicians, kids, moms, dads, grandparents and anyone that would agree to come and have me take a silhouette photo of them in our garage in Woodland Hills, California. All of the props were found/borrowed materials & clothing, or my hand-drawn pictures that I cut out of 1 dimensional cardboard. This was 1989 and I was about 6 months pregnant with my son at the time, so the picture I chose to use of myself on the cover was with a cardboard cutout of a drawing of a large format camera taped to a tripod and a time release cable. So many funny scenarios, lots of ideas getting thrown around. On the back cover, Michael Sadler’s top hat was a piece of cardboard taped to one side of his head, and one of my boots was taped to the outside of the leg of his ripped red tights with an extended bit of cardboard added to the toe to fit his foot. Jim & Ian Crichton’s pistols were cardboard cutouts, longer hair added for the period ponytails. Curt Cress was the drummer on this album, but lived in Europe, so I made a scale model of his business card, enlarged it and held it up as a silhouette to scale. The inside sleeve shots were taken with a Thermographic camera. Imagine if I continued this project through to today, the stories I’d have to tell! Would have been a lot easier in digital using Photoshop, but certainly not as much fun!
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Pleasure & The Pain - CD Cover
Photograph Print Size 11x14” (27x35 cm). Actual Image Size within 8x10" (20x25 cm) with borders. Price includes Cdn Sales Tax. Click Q&A menu for Order Details prior to ordering.
C$80.00
PLEASURE & THE PAIN ~ This is the original photo I presented to the Record Company for SAGA's 1997 CD front cover. The picture below shows the Title presented, but along the way they eventually changed it to"Pleasure & The Pain," (I've always just referred to it as "Pleasure & Pain".) This was a time when, in the world of fashion in LA, piercing was the thing. Piercing one eyebrow, your bellybutton, getting earlobe plugs, piercing your tongue, and any number of other unmentionable body parts, was a new trend. Since the decided CD title was The Pleasure & The Pain, and the idea behind the new fad seemed a somewhat painful pleasure, my idea was to create an artwork that featured what I thought was certain to be eye-catching! (no pun intended). The band loved it, but the European Record Company wasn't quite ready for that much 'pain,' so they nixed it and ended up using some cows and garbage cans on the released cover, of which I was not the designer - and that concept, for me, was all pain and no pleasure! The model and I had a great fun making this photo ~ I'll reveal how I made it some time and No, the model was not hurt or traumatized in this photo shoot! Years later, my cover has been now been approved by another Record Company, so you may see it out there some day.
©P. Crichton-Original CD Cover & Title "The Pleasure & The Pain" (this image for reference only)