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Summary: categorized well, but some photos too small
Review: This book has a neat premise...categorizing LP covers by themes and by designers by showing them in full color. The downside is that many of the photos are one inch square...hard to take in all the design efforts that went into the cover art, which is what this book is all about. Another minor complaint is that some of these covers have extensive ring wear, obviously from being a part of the author's own LP collection and not from the original films used to produce the covers (Hipgnosis still has ALL their transparencies, yet I guess it was easier or cheaper to not contact them and ask permission to use the originals). Plus there were a LOT of LP covers left out that, in my opinion, should have been included. But hey, I am not the author.Still I gave this book 4 stars as there are relatively few other books out there that attempt to do what this one does.
Rating:
Summary: categorized well, but some photos too small
Review: This book has a neat premise...categorizing LP covers by themes and by designers by showing them in full color. The downside is that many of the photos are one inch square...hard to take in all the design efforts that went into the cover art, which is what this book is all about. Another minor complaint is that some of these covers have extensive ring wear, obviously from being a part of the author's own LP collection and not from the original films used to produce the covers (Hipgnosis still has ALL their transparencies, yet I guess it was easier or cheaper to not contact them and ask permission to use the originals). Plus there were a LOT of LP covers left out that, in my opinion, should have been included. But hey, I am not the author. Still I gave this book 4 stars as there are relatively few other books out there that attempt to do what this one does.
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