Showing posts with label The Smiths. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Smiths. Show all posts

Sunday, 31 October 2010

Jim French

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Today's post is dedicated to a certain picture instead of a photographer. Its author was Jim French and it was the image that illustrated The Smiths first single; Hand in Glove. Its strong homoerotic charge matched the lyrics perfectly, but made it controversial. The song didn't reach the success it deserved when it first camed out but, for me, its sleeve is one of the best in pop music history.

Hoy, en vez de dedicar esta entrada a un fotógrafo, he decidio hablar de una foto en concreto. Su autor es Jim French y fue la imagen que ilustró el primer single que The Smiths sacó al mercado; Hand in Glove. Su fuerte carga homoerótica, casaba a la perfección con la letra pero la hicieron polémica. Puede que la canción no tuviera el éxito que se merecía en su momento, pero -para mí- su portada, se ha convertido en una de las mejores de la historia de la música pop.

Monday, 17 November 2008

Gutter

"We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars" . Oscar Wilde

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Open Gutter. Brassaï

Pic from: Masters-of-photography

Oscillate Wildly - The Smiths

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