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Storm Thorgerson, 1944–2013
The designer Storm Thorgerson has died. The news was confirmed by the management of Pink Floyd, who Thorgerson had had a long professional relationship with. Thorgerson designed the sleeve art of the band’s seminal 1973 album Dark Side Of The Moon; going on to work on record covers right up to his death on Thursday, collaborating with artists including Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, The Cranberries, The Mars Volta, Scorpions and Biffy Clyro.
I interviewed Thorgerson last year. The surroundings of our meeting were chaotic – the photographer Rankin was shooting him simultaneously, never a low-key undertaking. Hipster staff members and interns were high in number and Thorgerson had already endured a stylist, makeup, stills shoot and video shoot by the time I got to him. It wasn’t being in such a busy environment that fazed him however. His covers, which have an unworldly, hyperreal, sensuality to them – channeling the motifs and structures of surrealism, land art and the eighteenth century sublime – were always entirely staged live. The artwork for Wake Up and Smell the Coffee (2001), the fifth studio album by The Cranberries, features a woman sitting up in a bed, placed in a vast expanse of desert over a brilliant blue sky. Across this giant trac
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STORM THORGERSON
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By Steven Cerio
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Photographer Rupert Truman, member of StormStudio, will be at For Arts Sake gallery Sunday 23rd July from 12-3pm talking about his art and signing copies of his book. This event is part of the Ealing Arts Festival in Bond Stre