Post by tzinana on Mar 20, 2007 8:46:09 GMT
Album Cover Photographer Is Remembered
18-Mar-2007
According to the Washington Post, photographer Joel Brodsky, famous for album cover shots of Jim Morrison, Isaac Hayes, Aretha Franklin, and numerous other musicians during the 60s and 70s, died of a heart attack on March 1st at his home in Stamford, Conn. He was 67.
Brodsky shot photographs using a now-obsolete format, using the space of a 12 3/8 inch square of an album cover. His work was described as moody portraits with a surreal effect. Throughout his career, he photographed about 400 different artists' album covers including B.B. King, Carly Simon, Barry Manilow, Kiss, Iggy Pop, and Gladys Knight and the Pips. His best-known picture, which was created in his New York studio in 1966, is of a bare-chested Jim Morrison of the Doors, with outstretched arms, featured on the 1985 The Best of the Doors album. The photograph expresses Morrison's mysterious and messianic qualities.
Of the picture, Brodsky once commented, "You know, Morrison never really looked that way again, and those pictures have become a big part of the Doors' legend...I think I got him at his peak."
Five of Brodsky's photos of the Doors were used as album covers for the band, and he received a Grammy for the group's 1967 debut, The Doors cover shot. His Strange Days cover in 1967 showed carnival acrobats and a midget in a street scene.
thecelebritycafe.com/features/9274.html
18-Mar-2007
According to the Washington Post, photographer Joel Brodsky, famous for album cover shots of Jim Morrison, Isaac Hayes, Aretha Franklin, and numerous other musicians during the 60s and 70s, died of a heart attack on March 1st at his home in Stamford, Conn. He was 67.
Brodsky shot photographs using a now-obsolete format, using the space of a 12 3/8 inch square of an album cover. His work was described as moody portraits with a surreal effect. Throughout his career, he photographed about 400 different artists' album covers including B.B. King, Carly Simon, Barry Manilow, Kiss, Iggy Pop, and Gladys Knight and the Pips. His best-known picture, which was created in his New York studio in 1966, is of a bare-chested Jim Morrison of the Doors, with outstretched arms, featured on the 1985 The Best of the Doors album. The photograph expresses Morrison's mysterious and messianic qualities.
Of the picture, Brodsky once commented, "You know, Morrison never really looked that way again, and those pictures have become a big part of the Doors' legend...I think I got him at his peak."
Five of Brodsky's photos of the Doors were used as album covers for the band, and he received a Grammy for the group's 1967 debut, The Doors cover shot. His Strange Days cover in 1967 showed carnival acrobats and a midget in a street scene.
thecelebritycafe.com/features/9274.html