Music and art lovers, listen up: Aperture are publishing a new book to add to your ever-growing coffee table book library. Titled Total Records: Photography and the Art of the Album Cover, the book is a collection consisted of more than 400 famous album covers photographed by popular artists. The book seeks to explore the relationship formed between the artist and a musician’s identity when collaborating for an album cover. The book also features text by music journalist Jacques Denis, and an interview with Jean-Baptiste Mondino, French photographer and music video director extraordinaire. It’s a no-brainer to add to your collection as you’ll enjoy flipping through covers by Cindy Sherman, Andy Warhol, Robert Mapplethorpe, Guy Bourdin, and a host of other influential photographers.
An exhibition featuring the photographs will be on display in Berlin at C/O Berlin Foundation between December 3, 2016–February 5, 2017, and in Rotterdam at Kunsthal Rotterdam between February 24–June 4, 2017.
Total Records: Photography and the Art of the Album Cover is out late October. Check out some of the images featured in the book below.
Björk, Possibly Maybe (One Little Indian, 1996), photograph by Nobuyoshi Araki. Courtesy Aperture.
Prince, Lovesexy (Paisley Park, 1988), photograph by Jean-Baptiste Mondino. Courtesy Aperture.
Tom Waits, Rain Dogs (Island Records, 1985), photograph by Anders Petersen. Courtesy Aperture.
Grace Jones, Island Life (Island Records, 1985), photograph by Jean-Paul Goude. Courtesy Aperture.
Boz Scaggs, Middle Man (Columbia, 1980), photograph by Guy Bourdin. Courtesy Aperture.