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* BudgetBustingElement: the insistance on on-location photoshoots was an infamous part of the Hipgnosis process.
** For the Music/TenCc album "Look Hear?", the consept was a sheep laying on a FreudianCouch on a beach in Hawaii, which became complicated by there only being only a handful of sheep on the islands, at an university agricultural department, and no psychoanalyst couches, so one had to be made custom just for the shoot. And then, the photo was shrunk to the height of three millimeters on the LP cover.
** The cover for Music/WingsBand greatest hits album is a photo of a statue Ringo Starr bought against a snow bank. The snow bank is a mountain top in the Alps, where it was flown via helicopter.
** For the Music/TenCc album "Look Hear?", the consept was a sheep laying on a FreudianCouch on a beach in Hawaii, which became complicated by there only being only a handful of sheep on the islands, at an university agricultural department, and no psychoanalyst couches, so one had to be made custom just for the shoot. And then, the photo was shrunk to the height of three millimeters on the LP cover.
** The cover for Music/WingsBand greatest hits album is a photo of a statue Ringo Starr bought against a snow bank. The snow bank is a mountain top in the Alps, where it was flown via helicopter.
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* TroubledProduction: The photoshoot for "Music/Animals1977" by Music/PinkFloyd was a small disaster, as there was trouble inflating the pig balloon, fickle weather, and then the balloon broke free and floated into the airspace of Heathrow airport, grounding all flights.
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* StarMakingRole: Music/PinkFloyd's ''Music/TheDarkSideOfTheMoon'' was so overwhelmingly successful that it brought Hipgnosis even more recognition than they'd already achieved.
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* StarMakingRole: Music/PinkFloyd's ''Music/TheDarkSideOfTheMoon'' was so overwhelmingly successful that it brought Hipgnosis even more recognition than they'd already achieved. Before that, the cover for "Elegy" for the band The Nice was their calling card in the music industry.
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* DoingItForTheArt: The story behind the cover of The Nice's ''[[http://hipgnosiscovers.com/thenice/elegy.html Elegy]]'' is a prime example. While listening to an advance copy of the album, Storm Thorgerson had a mental image of a desert scene covered with plastic red soccer balls. He and Aubrey Powell actually went to the Sahara to shoot it. To quote an anonymous poster at Album Art Photos:
-->''"[Hipgnosis] had to take these balls to the Sahara, inflate them, place then on sand dunes as far as the eye can see, repeat this because of the winds moving the balls, remove the footprints as best they could, then take the photo. No CGI. A lot of hard work, but an iconic image."''
-->''"[Hipgnosis] had to take these balls to the Sahara, inflate them, place then on sand dunes as far as the eye can see, repeat this because of the winds moving the balls, remove the footprints as best they could, then take the photo. No CGI. A lot of hard work, but an iconic image."''
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* WagTheDirector: As discussed in the retrospective / art compendium ''Vinyl. Album. Cover. Art'', while the studio usually managed to get creative control over their projects, in some cases the artists were powerful enough to basically impose a vision on them. In particular, their collaborations with Music/PaulMcCartney tended to fall under this, as [=McCartney=]'s wife and creative collaborator Linda was herself a talented photographer and [=McCartney=] himself was, well, one of Music/TheBeatles.
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* WagTheDirector: As discussed in the retrospective / art retrospective/art compendium ''Vinyl. Album. Cover. Art'', while the studio usually managed to get creative control over their projects, in some cases the artists were powerful enough to basically impose a vision on them. In particular, their collaborations with Music/PaulMcCartney tended to fall under this, as [=McCartney=]'s wife and creative collaborator Linda was herself a talented photographer and [=McCartney=] himself was, well, one of Music/TheBeatles.
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** Thorgerson was not afraid to express his disappointment when the sleeve he did for Music/{{Pendulum}} was tampered with by the band without his consent.
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** Thorgerson was not afraid to express his disappointment when the sleeve he did for Music/{{Pendulum}} Music/{{Pendulum|Band}} was tampered with by the band without his consent.
