GRAPHIS RECORD COVERS
THE EVOLUTION OF GRAPHICS REFLECTED IN RECORD PACKAGING
Walter Herdeg [Editor]
Walter Herdeg [Editor]: GRAPHIS RECORD COVERS: THE EVOLUTION OF GRAPHICS REFLECTED IN RECORD PACKAGING. Zurich: Graphis, 1974. First edition. Text in English, German, and French. A very good hardcover book issued without a dustjacket: the glazed boards replicating a vinyl album are lightly shelfworn with the lower corner especially so. Light wear to spine ends. Interior unmarked and very clean. Out-of-print.
9.5 x 9.5 hardcover book with 192 pages and approx. 60 color illustrations and 575 black and white illustrations. Amazing compendium of record covers: “The music and its extraordinary thrust of power, the inspired packaging all wrapped up for the incredible, insatiable audience of young people that responded with such joy and devotion.” Beautifully designed and printed in Switzerland --with a name like Graphis, it's got to be good.
- Editor’s Foreword
- Introduction
- Index to Artists
- Index to Designers
- Index to Art Directors
- Index to Publishers
- Pioneers
- Nineteen-Fifties
- Music (in alphabetical order): Beat, Classical, Children’s Records, Dance Music, Educational Records, Film Music, Folk Songs, Hits/Chansons, Japanese Folk Music, Japanese Projects, Jazz, Light Music, Literary Recordings, Misc. Records, Pop, Protest Songs, Rock, Special Presentations, and Spirituals
Artists and photographers include Richard Avedon, Heinz Bähr, Saul Bass, Wolfgang Baumann, Bloomsbury Group, Erich Brauer, Gene Brownell, John Bryson, Bernd Cardinal, Paul Davis, André de Dienes, Etienne Delessert, Heinz Edelmann, M. C. Escher, Nick Fasciano, Robert Frank, Antonio Frasconi, Milton Glaser, Hazuyuki Gotoh, Walter Grieder, Robert Grossman, Philippe Halsman, Richard Hess, Don Hunstein, Eiko Ishioka, Koji Ito, Horst Janssen, Art Kane, Tom Kelley, Herb Lubalin, Setsuko Majima, Alain Marouani, Holger Matthies, Arnold Newman, Toshiki Ohashi, Georg Schmid, Norman Seeff, Ben Shahn, Craig Simpson, Bert Stern, Heinz Stieger, Hatsulo Tanaka, Ed Thrasher, Pete Turner, Tomi Ungerer, Kiyoshi Wakusi, Andy Warhol, Gary Winogrand, Francis Wolf, and Tadanori Yokoo among many many others.