The album cover is just as iconic as the ... album in a black shrink wrap that obscured the art until the buyer unwrapped it. Wish You Were Here has become one of the most highly regarded rock ...

"Wish You Were Here" Image: Pink Floyd Music Ltd Traditional ... More on the designer group can also be found in the book "Vinyl, Album, Cover, Art: The Complete Hipgnosis Catalogue" that was ...

and most album covers feature relatively safe images. When Pink Floyd‘s album Wish You Were Here was created, however, it took a stuntman — who had a dangerously close call. Pink Floyd is ...

Here, in a short interview, Thorgerson discusses some of his most famous creations, including the “Wish You Were Here ... coffin of cover art, both by deëmphasizing the album in favor ...

“For the Record: Photography and the Art of the Album Cover” gathers together a ... “Physical Graffiti” by Led Zeppelin, “Wish You Were Here” by Pink Floyd, the stunning run of covers ...

Immediately upon release, Pink Floyd described Wish You Were Here as an album about “absence,” and that central “absence” was Barrett. As soon as Waters wrote the words to accompany ...