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Hip (Hop) Graphics
Posted by: Daniel Cane on 4th Jun 2010 in Design Top 5
Five hip-hop debuts and a look at how the cover photography helped define the artist, and the era...
1. Brand New Second Hand
2. Connected
3. Cypress Hill
4. Endtroducing…
5. Supa Dupa Fly
1.
Roots Manuva, Brand New Second Hand
1999 - Big Dada
Photographer: Nigel Bennett
A crooked, flashed photograph of an old scratched microwave. The image is so unglamorous you’d be forgiven for thinking that it had been used by mistake. In fact its trademark of the tradition of understated, even drab album covers that British artists have always done so well.
2.
The Foreign Exchange, Connected
2004 - BBE
Photographer: Frank William Miller Junior
The two artists who collaborated on the album didn’t meet until after it‘s release, and instead sent recordings back and forth across the internet. This unconventional method was reflected by what might be the most audaciously uncommercial cover in hip-hop’s history, a young couple kissing against the setting sun.
3.
Cypress Hill, Cypress Hill
1991 – Columbia
Photographer: Michael Miller
Grainy, distorted and out of focus. At first glance, this tenebrous image of the artists just looks like a muddled texture. At the time of the album’s release, the gold-chain excesses of the late 80s had largely fallen out of fashion in hip-hop. But nothing epitomised this modesty like these three, apparently unaware they’re being photographed, stood round a burning oil drum, surrounded by litter.
4.
DJ Shadow, Endtroducing…..
1996 - Mowax
Photographer: B Plus
A candid moment in the life of the artist, browsing the 3,000 sq. foot of a Sacramento record shop. The image has become an icon, and encapsulates the culture of digging for and sampling records, of which Shadow is indisputably the crowned king.
5.
Missy Elliot, Supa Dupa Fly
1997 - East West Rec.
Photographer: Kwaku Alston
Confident and nonchalant, Elliot reclines on a gold trim sofa, in front of thick claret drapes, and puts a box-fresh Air Force 1 right in our face. From this ghetto fabulous debut, its little wonder she has become the entrepreneur and stellar icon that we know today
Posted by: Daniel Cane on 4th Jun 2010 in Design Top 5
Five hip-hop debuts and a look at how the cover photography helped define the artist, and the era...
1. Brand New Second Hand
2. Connected
3. Cypress Hill
4. Endtroducing…
5. Supa Dupa Fly
1.
Roots Manuva, Brand New Second Hand
1999 - Big Dada
Photographer: Nigel Bennett
A crooked, flashed photograph of an old scratched microwave. The image is so unglamorous you’d be forgiven for thinking that it had been used by mistake. In fact its trademark of the tradition of understated, even drab album covers that British artists have always done so well.
2.
The Foreign Exchange, Connected
2004 - BBE
Photographer: Frank William Miller Junior
The two artists who collaborated on the album didn’t meet until after it‘s release, and instead sent recordings back and forth across the internet. This unconventional method was reflected by what might be the most audaciously uncommercial cover in hip-hop’s history, a young couple kissing against the setting sun.
3.
Cypress Hill, Cypress Hill
1991 – Columbia
Photographer: Michael Miller
Grainy, distorted and out of focus. At first glance, this tenebrous image of the artists just looks like a muddled texture. At the time of the album’s release, the gold-chain excesses of the late 80s had largely fallen out of fashion in hip-hop. But nothing epitomised this modesty like these three, apparently unaware they’re being photographed, stood round a burning oil drum, surrounded by litter.
4.
DJ Shadow, Endtroducing…..
1996 - Mowax
Photographer: B Plus
A candid moment in the life of the artist, browsing the 3,000 sq. foot of a Sacramento record shop. The image has become an icon, and encapsulates the culture of digging for and sampling records, of which Shadow is indisputably the crowned king.
5.
Missy Elliot, Supa Dupa Fly
1997 - East West Rec.
Photographer: Kwaku Alston
Confident and nonchalant, Elliot reclines on a gold trim sofa, in front of thick claret drapes, and puts a box-fresh Air Force 1 right in our face. From this ghetto fabulous debut, its little wonder she has become the entrepreneur and stellar icon that we know today
Comments
Posted by deef on 14th Jun 2010 02:36 PM
nice choices!
nice choices!
