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Record covers with historical photographs

1.
Up until 1938, album covers consisted of simple, undifferentiated brown cardboard. But they were suddenly transformed into objects designed with very clear graphic purposes. The beginning of this change is associated with Alex Steinwess (1917-2011), the art director of Columbia Records who, aged 23, urged the label to develop an innovative and attractive approach to sell records. This was the discovery of a lifetime, as he subsequently secretly revealed: I would have paid them for the job. Album covers progressively played a decisive role in the construction of the identity of record labels, without exception. A large proportion of these graphic solutions, in particular the albums produced in the late 1960s, gained widespread recognition, due to their connection to key moments in the history of popular music, from The Beatles to The Velvet Underground, from the Rolling Stones to Pink Floyd. On the other hand, such iconic relationships are rare, in the context of all existing musical production. In light of this fact, a consistent visual project can be as significant, or more significant, than the music itself. Over recent years, collectors who first grasped this reality — i.e. the importance of this musical format as a space for visual representation — have built significant album cover collections, from the most influential collectors, such as Guy Schraenen (1941-2018) whose collection was published in Vinyl Records & Covers By Artists, 2005, to more obscure ones, such as Jan Bellekens, who published Covered: Classic Sleeves And Their Imitators, 2011. Of all the graphic manifestations that we associate with album covers, I was interested in pursuing a less evident, and somewhat more subterranean line of enquiry — that focused on the meeting places between this history and the parallel history of photography. I began to look for and acquire vinyl records whose covers featured historical photographs, appropriated by musicians, designers or editors who, at some point, chose pre-existing images to create the identity for their records. It is, therefore, a collection that consists of iconic, historical and artistic images, in which the original photographs have been presented in museological contexts. They are, therefore, photographs that have been transferred from galleries and museums and were not initially created in order to be used in this specific object. It is a collection based on the encounter between two histories: of musical culture and of photography.

2.
The collection has been built through reducing the distance between each original photograph and its reception, referring to the principles of reproduction and dissemination of the artistic work that André Malraux explored in his essay, Museum Without Walls. Above all, the idea of reproducing the artwork as being synonymous with expanding the physical space of the museum, through an experience in which the observer gains in the field of knowledge but loses in the field of authenticity. The understanding of this distance is evident in these album covers. The works presented here were taken from their original artistic contexts and reproduced in a distorted manner from their original matrices — from the work initially thought and conceived by their authors. Firstly, by transforming the scale, and also by altering the format, framing, colour, juxtaposing it with other images, among many other possibilities of adulteration. One of the most stimulating aspects of this collection is precisely the experience of confrontation between the original work and its reproduction. A set of mirrors that is only possible to establish through the inventory available in this website, in which each entry in the collection is accompanied by a technical sheet that specifies the details of the album and also the origin of the photograph: the author, title and date. This exercise is built on a classification and documentation system which may be debatable, but which, at the same time, is entirely necessary to identify connections between the objects hitherto available on the platform.

3.
Discovering, studying, thinking and making an inventory of the history of photography based on the album covers of popular music encouraged research and a collection of cases that consisted of a sum of artistic conceptions and representations using very different formal and conceptual assumptions. The collection is not framed within a closed artistic orientation. Its exclusive nature is to uphold the core criterion that the photographs belong to widely recognized authors. Integrating the heterogeneity of these creative processes, which often lie outside more established contexts, has driven my review of the history of photography, admitting alternative and complementary narratives that encourage the construction of more plural discourses. For example, the discovery of photographers from less obvious locations, while allowing new interpretations to be formulated about the paths taken by photographers who play an essential role in this story. As the collection expanded, it became equally challenging to identify a set of resonances between image and sound. Using this website, it is now possible to establish correspondences between different photographic typologies and musical genres. The most evident example of this intersection is the reproduction, on Blues album covers, of photographs from the Farm Security Administration — the programme created to combat rural impoverishment during the Great Depression. Another relationship that has become undeniable over time is the presence of the photomontages created by John Heartfield (1891-1968) on Punk music album covers. Finally, this collection not only aims to consider these possible relationships or identify the primordial photographs, it is intended, on the basis of an object not designed for this specific purpose, to activate the relationship with the photographic practice, admitting variations in terms of the uncertainty of how to read, interpret and construct the history of photography.

In 2007 I started a collection of vinyl records with covers that reproduce carefully selected-photographs. These are photographs appropriated from a possible history of photography and were therefore not created specifically to be used in this particular object. These reproductions allowed me to explore visual and sound relationships that I deepened in my PhD thesis, completed in January 2014. This website shares the objects I've been collecting. The entry for each vinyl record includes information about the album (music artist, nationality, title, label, year or music genre), and a short caption about the photograph (author, title, nationality, year and related tags, as well as an external link to the original photograph). Collecting is a never-ending process, so the website is updated regularly. I have done my utmost to provide strict specifications for each entry, but if you discover any inaccuracies or have any additional information, please contact me. Thank you.

I am an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto (FBAUP) since 1999. Member of FBAUP's Executive Board. Director of the MA in Image Design(MDI) since 2014. Director of the Centre for Studies in Design and Art (CEDA) from 2015 to 2024. I completed my PhD in Art & Design in 2014. I'm researcher at ID+: Research Institute for Design, Media and Culture and collaborate with i2ADS: Research Institute in Art, Design and Society. My full CV is available here. You can find me on Instagram or drop me an email jc[at]josecarneiro[dot]org.

Photography by Liliana Mendes, 2023

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  • A

    • Abbas Attar
    • Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin
    • Adolf de Meyer
    • Adriana João
    • Alberto Feijóo Rodríguez
    • Alberto García-Alix
    • Alec Soth
    • Alex Prager
    • Alex Webb
    • Alexander Gardner
    • Alexander Rodchenko
    • Alvin Baltrop
    • Amanda Charchian
    • Anders Petersen
    • André Cepeda
    • André Kertész
    • Andreas Gursky
    • Andreas Hubertus Ilse
    • Andrei Tarkovsky
    • Andrew Tshabangu
    • Ansel Adams
    • António Júlio Duarte
    • Apichatpong Weerasethakul
    • Art Shay
    • Arthur Leipzig
    • Arthur Rothstein
    • Arthur Tress
    • Artur Pastor
    • Asger Carlsen
  • B

    • B. Anthony Stewart
    • Barbara Leisgen & Michael Leisgen
    • Beate Geissler & Oliver Sann
    • Beatriz Ferreira
    • Berenice Abbott
    • Bernard Faucon
    • Bernard Plossu
    • Bert Hardy
    • Bianca Brunner
    • Bill Brandt
    • Bill Butterworth
    • Bill Owens
    • Bill Ray
    • Bob Fitch
    • Boris Savelev
    • Brassaï (Gyula Halász)
    • Bruce Davidson
    • Bruce Gilden
    • Bruno Barbey
    • Burt Glinn
  • C

    • Camille Seaman
    • Carl Mydans
    • Carlos Lobo
    • Cecil Beaton
    • Charles C. Ebbets
    • Chema Madoz
    • Chris Steele-Perkins
    • Christer Strömholm
    • Christian Patterson
    • Christian Vogt
    • Cindy Sherman
    • Claude Cahun
    • Claude Nori
    • Co Rentmeester
    • Constantine Manos
  • D

    • Daidō Moriyama
    • Dan Graham
    • Daniel José
    • Daniel Malhão
    • Danny Lyon
    • David Black
    • David Hurn
    • David Plowden
    • David Wojnarowicz
    • Deana Lawson
    • Deborah Turbeville
    • Denis Brihat
    • Dennis Hopper
    • Dennis Stock
    • Detlef Orlopp
    • Diane Arbus
    • Don McCullin
    • Dorothea Lange
    • Duane Michals
  • E

    • Eadweard Muybridge
    • Ed van der Elsken
    • Eddy van Wessel
    • Edgar Martins
    • Edith Tudor-Hart
    • Eduardo Gageiro
    • Edward S. Curtis
    • Edward Steichen
    • Edward Weston
    • Eli Reed
    • Ellen Auerbach
    • Elliott Erwitt
    • Emmanuel Sougez
    • Emmet Gowin
    • Erich Hartmann
    • Ernest Cole
    • Ernst Haas
    • Erwin Blumenfeld
    • Esther Bubley
    • Étienne Carjat
    • Eugène Atget
    • Eve Arnold
    • Ewing Galloway
  • F

    • Farah Marie Velten
    • Fergus Bourke
    • Francis Meadow (Frank) Sutcliffe
    • Franco Fontana
    • Frank Gohlke
    • Fulvio Ventura
  • G

    • Gabor Szilasi
    • Garry Winogrand
    • Geoffrey Biddle
    • George Hoyningen-Huene
    • George Mitchell
    • George N. Barnard
    • George Rodger
    • Gérald Bloncourt
    • Gertrude Käsebier
    • Gilles Caron
    • Gordon Parks
    • Gregory Crewdson
    • Guy Le Querrec
  • H

    • Hans Bellmer
    • Harold Edgerton
    • Harry Todd
    • Heji Shin
    • Helen Levitt
    • Henri Cartier-Bresson
    • Herbert Bayer
    • Herbert George Ponting
    • Herbert List
    • Herlinde Koelbl
    • Hiro Tanaka
    • Hiroshi Hamaya
    • Hiroshi Sugimoto
    • Humphrey Spender
  • I

    • Ian Berry
    • Inês Gonçalves
    • Inge Morath
    • Iwata Nakayama
  • J

    • J. Allan Cash
    • Jack Delano
    • Jack Robinson
    • Jacob Holdt
    • Jacob Riis
    • Jacques Henri Lartigue
    • Jamel Shabazz
    • James F. Gibson
    • James Nachtwey
    • James Welling
    • Jan Saudek
    • Janette Beckman
    • Jasmine Deporta
    • Jean Depara
    • Jeanloup Sieff
    • Jeff Wall
    • Jerry Schatzberg
    • Jill Freedman
    • Jim French
    • Jim Goldberg
    • Jochen Lempert
    • Jock Sturges
    • Joe Rosenthal
    • Joel Meyerowitz
    • Joel Sternfeld
    • Joel-Peter Witkin
    • John Baldessari
    • John Benjamin Stone
    • John Divola
    • John Dominis
    • John Heartfield
    • John Pfahl
    • John Stezaker
    • John Topham
    • Josef Koudelka
    • Joseph McKenzie
    • Joseph Szabo
    • Josephine Pryde
    • Julia Margaret Cameron
    • Julie Lemberger
    • Jürgen Vollmer
    • Justine Kurland
  • K

    • Karl Blossfeldt
    • Kate Bellm
    • Katrin Koenning
    • Klaus Frahm
    • Kunie Sugiura
  • L

    • Larry Fink
    • Lasse Dearman
    • Laurence Demaison
    • Leah Gordon
    • Lee Friedlander
    • Lee Miller
    • Leni Riefenstahl
    • Leonard Freed
    • Leonard McCombe
    • Les Krims
    • Letizia Battaglia
    • Lewis Hine
    • Linder Sterling
    • Louise Dahl-Wolfe
    • Luigi Ghirri
    • Lynda Churilla
  • M

    • Malcolm Browne
    • Malick Sidibé
    • Man Ray
    • Manoel De Oliveira
    • Marc Riboud
    • Margaret Bourke-White
    • Marinka Grondel
    • Marion Post Wolcott
    • Martha Cooper
    • Martien Mulder
    • Martin Parr
    • Mary Ellen Mark
    • Masahisa Fukase
    • Melanie Walker
    • Michael Ackerman
    • Mika Kitamura
    • Mike Kelley
    • Mike Wells
    • Milan Horacek
    • Milton H. Greene
    • Ming Smith
    • Minor White
    • Mirella Ricciardi
    • Miroslav Tichý
  • N

    • Nair Benedicto
    • Nan Goldin
    • Neal Boenzi
    • Nick Hedges
    • Nick Waplington
    • Nico Krebs & Taiyo Onorato
    • Nikolay Matorin
    • Nobuyoshi Araki
    • Norman Seeff
  • O

    • Oscar Marzaroli
    • Otto Steinert
    • Ouka Leele
  • P

    • Paco
    • Paul Fusco
    • Paul Nougé
    • Paul Strand
    • Peter Beard
    • Peter Hujar
    • Peter Lindbergh
    • Peter Marlow
    • Philip Jones Griffiths
    • Philippe Halsman
    • Pierre Boucher
    • Pierre Verger
    • Pieter Hugo
    • Pietro Francesco Mele
    • Pol Bury
  • R

    • Ralph Bartholomew Jr.
    • Ralph Gibson
    • Ralston Crawford
    • Raymond Depardon
    • René Burri
    • Richard Misrach
    • Richard Sandler
    • Rita Lino
    • Robert Capa
    • Robert Demachy
    • Robert Doisneau
    • Robert F. Sargent
    • Robert Frank
    • Robert Mapplethorpe
    • Robin Grierson
    • Rodney Graham
    • Roger Ballen
    • Roger Fenton
    • Roger Mayne
    • Romain Meffre & Yves Marchand
    • Ron Jude
    • Roy Decarava
    • Rudolf Fisch
    • Rúrí
    • Russell Lee
    • Ryan McGinley
  • S

    • Sabine Weiss
    • Sakae Tamura
    • Sally Mann
    • Sam Haskins
    • Sam Shaw
    • Samuel Aranda
    • Sandy Skoglund
    • Sanlé Sory
    • Sebastião Salgado
    • Sergeĭ Mikhaĭlovich Prokudin-Gorskiĭ
    • Shae Detar
    • Shirley Baker
    • Simon Marsden
    • Slim Aarons
    • Stanley Forman
    • Steve Schapiro
    • Susan Meiselas
    • Sylvia Plachy
  • T

    • Ted Croner
    • Tee Corinne
    • Thomas Hoepker
    • Thomas Kneubühler
    • Thomas Ruff
    • Tierney Gearon
    • Tim Head
    • Tina Modotti
    • Todd Hido
    • Tom Wood
    • Toni Frissell
    • Touhami Ennadre
    • Traianos Pakioufakis
  • V

    • Vincent Fournier
  • W

    • W. Eugene Smith
    • Walker Evans
    • Walter Martin & Paloma Muñoz
    • Weegee (Arthur Fellig)
    • Wendy McMurdo
    • Werner Bischof
    • William Eggleston
    • William Klein
    • William Vandivert
    • Willy Ronis
    • Wolfgang Tillmans
    • Wynn Bullock
  • X

    • Xavier Lambours
  • Y

    • Yevgeny Khaldei
    • Yuri Shibuya
    • Yusuf Sevincli
  • A

    • Angola
    • Austria/England
    • Austria/United States
  • B

    • Belgium
    • Brazil
    • Burkina Faso
  • C

    • Canada
    • Czech Republic
  • D

    • Denmark
    • Denmark/United States
  • E

    • England
    • England/United States
  • F

    • France
    • France/Brazil
  • G

    • Germany
    • Germany/England
    • Germany/United States
    • Greece
  • H

    • Haiti
    • Hungary
    • Hungary/United States
  • I

    • Iceland
    • Iran
    • Ireland
    • Israel
    • Italy
    • Italy/Scotland
    • Italy/United States
  • J

    • Japan
  • K

    • Kenya
  • L

    • Luxembourg/United States
  • M

    • Mali
    • Morocco
  • N

    • Netherlands
    • Netherlands/United States
  • P

    • Portugal
  • R

    • Russia
  • S

    • Scotland
    • South Africa
    • South Africa/England
    • Spain
    • Sweden
    • Switzerland
    • Switzerland/France
    • Switzerland/United States
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    • Thailand
    • Turkey
  • U

    • Ukraine/Russia
    • United States
    • United States & Spain
    • United States/France
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    • Wales
  • Y

    • 1855
    • 1862
    • 1862 (c.)
    • 1865
    • 1872
    • 1885-1911
    • 1887
    • 1888 (c.)
    • 1889 (c.)
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    • 1903
    • 1904
    • 1905
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    • 1908
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    • 1910
    • 1910-13
    • 1913
    • 1915
    • 1915 (c.)
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    • 1920 (c.)
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    • 1923
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    • 1929-1930
    • 1930
    • 1930-1939
    • 1931
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    • 1939 (c.)
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    • 1960 (c.)
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    • 1964-1974
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    • 1966-1968
    • 1967
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    • 1967-1971
    • 1968
    • 1968–1971
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    • 1970 (c.)
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    • 1973-1987
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    • 1974-1998
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    • 1977-2006
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    • 1980 (c.)
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    • Unknown Date
  • A

    • Any Classification
  • C

    • Chronophotography
    • Constructivism
    • Contemporary Art
  • D

    • Dada-Surrealism
    • Documentary Photography
  • F

    • Farm Security Administration
    • Fashion Photography
    • Fine Art
  • M

    • Magnum Photos
  • O

    • Outsider Art
  • P

    • Photojournalism
    • Photojournalism-Magnum Photos
    • Photomontage
    • Pictorialism
    • Portrait Photography
  • S

    • Social Photography
    • Straight Photography
    • Street Photography
    • Surrealism
  • W

    • War Photography
    • War Photography-Magnum Photos
  • 2

    • 222
  • A

    • A/10
    • Aaron Copland; Boston Symphony Chamber Players; Gilbert Kalish
    • Abolitionist
    • Abwärts
    • Academia Parabüten
    • Aerosmith
    • Alice
    • Ambasadori
    • Amen Dunes
    • ANBB
    • Andrew Bird
    • Andrew John & Lissa
    • Andy Pawlak
    • Andy Stott
    • Anohni And The Johnsons
    • Anthony Davis
    • Antony And The Johnsons
    • Apache
    • Arcade Fire With Owen Pallett
    • Arthur Doyle
    • Arto Lindsay
    • Artur Rubinstein
    • Ash
    • Asmus Tietchens & Miki Yui
    • Atka / Shimetsu
    • Au Pairs
  • B

    • Babes In Toyland
    • Bad Religion
    • Barker & Baumecker
    • Baseball Gregg
    • Bauhaus
    • Beatrice Dillon
    • Ben Folds & Nick Hornby
    • Biermösl Blosn
    • Big Star
    • Bill Connors
    • Bill Evans
    • Bill Evans & Jim Hall
    • Biosphere
    • Bivouac
    • Black Cat Music
    • Blaudzun
    • Blessed Initiative
    • Blonde Redhead
    • Blood Orange
    • Blur
    • Bob Dylan
    • Bonetti
    • Book Of Love
    • Boowy
    • Brass Monkey
    • Brendon Moeller
    • Bruce Springsteen
    • Buffalo Tom
    • Bullet Boys
    • Buscemi
    • Buzzcocks
  • C

    • Cafe Soul All Stars
    • CAN
    • Capablanca
    • Cat Power
    • Catchers
    • Cavity
    • Charles Ives - Herbert Henck
    • Charles Ives - Herbert Henck; Deborah Richards
    • Chris Campbell
    • Christian Naujoks
    • Chuck Prophet
    • City Kids
    • Cloudburst
    • Cochise
    • Cocteau Twins
    • Coldfish
    • Collin Walcott
    • Common
    • Conway The Machine & Wun Two
    • Creem
    • Crematorium
    • Crystal Castles
    • Cseh Tamás & Csengey Dénes
    • Current
    • Curtis Mayfield
    • Customs
  • D

    • Damon & Naomi
    • Daniel Lanois
    • Daniel Maunick
    • Daniele Luppi & Parquet Courts
    • Danza Invisible
    • Das Wesen
    • David Murray Trio
    • David Newman
    • Dawn Upshaw
    • Deacon Blue
    • Dead Can Dance
    • Dead Kennedys
    • Deathwish
    • Deerhoof
    • Deerhunter
    • Delta
    • Det Glade Vanvidd
    • Die Sterne
    • Dinosaur JR
    • Disaffect / Sedition
    • Discharge
    • Dmitri Shostakovich — Leningrad Symphony Orchestra / Alexander Dmitriev
    • Dolorean
    • Drago Mlinarec
    • Drummers And Singers Of The Societe Absolument Guinin
    • Dukes Of Chutney
  • E

    • Early Day Miners
    • Econochrist
    • Eels
    • El May
    • Electronic Art Ensemble
    • Elephant's Memory
    • Elevator Suite
    • Enrico Rava Quartet
    • Escándalo Públiko
    • Eugene Ormandy; Vladimir Ashkenazy And The Philadelphia Orchestra
    • Everything But The Girl
    • Evols
  • F

    • Facit
    • Fairground Attraction
    • Faith Brothers
    • Faith No More
    • Father Father
    • Faton Cahen
    • Fats Waller And His Big Band
    • Fear Of Music
    • Feeder
    • Fever Ray
    • Filipe Felizardo & Yann Gourdon
    • Flamingoes
    • Fleet Foxes
    • Fold
    • Fontaines D.C.
    • For Adults Only
    • Forest Fire
    • Francis Cabrel
    • Francis Crémieux
    • Franck Pourcel Et Son Grand Orchestre
    • François "Faton" Cahen
    • Franti
    • Frog Eyes
    • Fucked Up
    • Fuel
    • Funcionário
  • G

    • Gabriel Ferrandini
    • Gabriel Ferrandini; Maria Reis; André Cepeda
    • Galaxie 500
    • Gene
    • Gene Ammons
    • George Duke
    • George Michael
    • George Russell Sextet Featuring Jan Garbarek
    • Gerber & Kalbata / Pig & Dan
    • Germ
    • Gerritt Wittmer
    • Gerry Cinnamon
    • Gesaffelstein
    • Giovanni Di Domenico; Jim O'Rourke; Tatsuhisa Yamamoto
    • Girls Against Boys
    • Gladys Knight And The Pips
    • GNR
    • Go!Zilla
    • God
    • God Within
    • Golden Earring
    • Grass Harp
    • Graziella De Michele
    • Green Day
    • Green On Red
    • Grifters
    • Guadalcanal Diary
    • Gulag (Γκούλαγκ)
    • Guts Pie Earshot
  • H

    • Haley Bonar
    • Halma
    • Hamilton Leithauser
    • Hamilton Leithauser + Rostam
    • Harbour
    • Harold Mabern
    • Harvie Swartz
    • Hass
    • Heartfield
    • Heldon
    • Hellmenn
    • Helmet
    • Henry Torgue & Serge Houppin
    • Heróis Do Mar
    • Hiroshima
    • His Latest Flame
    • Hoodlum Priest
    • Hot House
    • Hurricane #1
    • Hybrid Children
    • Hydroplane
  • I

    • I Pilot Dæmon
    • I-Lands
    • IAMX
    • Ian Dury And The Blockheads
    • Iconoclast / Merel
    • Ilegales
    • Indochine
    • Infest
    • Insomnia Isterica / Agathocles
    • Insomnia Isterica / Compost
    • Inspiral Carpets
    • Interpol
  • J

    • J Church
    • J.T. Brown And His Boogie Boys
    • Jack White
    • James Newton
    • Jean-Marc Tennberg
    • Jeff Rosenstock
    • Jefferson Starship
    • Jefre Cantu-Ledesma
    • Jerry Harrison: Casual Gods
    • Jim Horn
    • Jim Robinson's
    • Jim Robinson's New Orleans Band
    • Joan Baez
    • Joanna Newsom
    • JoBoxers
    • John Adams
    • John Cougar Mellencamp
    • John Maus
    • John Prine
    • John Surman
    • John Zorn
    • Johnny Shines & Snooky Pryor
    • Jonny Nash
    • Josef K.
    • June
  • K

    • Karel Kryl
    • Kath Bloom
    • Kid Thomas And His Algiers Stompers
    • Killer Pralinen
    • Killing Joke
    • Kim Gordon
    • Kinski
    • Kiss In The Dark
    • KMD
    • Kowloon Walled City
  • L

    • Laboratorija
    • Laibach
    • Larkins
    • Laurent Petitgand
    • Lawrence English
    • Layo & Bushwacka!
    • Le Volume Courbe
    • Leon Vynehall
    • Les Innocents
    • LHB
    • Life But How To Live It
    • Life...But How To Live It?
    • Lionel Marchetti & Jérome Noetinger
    • Little Brother Montgomery
    • Llama Farmers
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    • Louis Sclavis Quintet
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  • M

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  • N

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  • O

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    • Okkyung Lee
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    • Orchestra Baobab
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  • P

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  • Q

    • Quarterflash
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    • Raionbashi, Daniela Fromberg And Stefan Roigk
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    • Rolling Stones
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  • S

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    • Yage
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    • Zeb Roc Ski & Stieber Twins
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  • A

    • Afro Cuban
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    • Black Metal
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    • Darkwave
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    • Reggae
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  • S

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  • U

    • Unknown Genre
  • W

    • World
  • Alberto García-Alix

    Alberto García-Alix

    Unknown Title, Unknown Date

    Various Artists

    3ª Compilación Rough Trade, 1984

  • Bert Hardy

    Bert Hardy

    Gorbals Boys, Glasgow, 1948

    Various Artists

    Heartlands, 1992

  • Bill Ray

    Bill Ray

    A Pair Of "Old Ladies", The Girlfriends Of Members Of A Hells Angels Motorcycle Club, California, 1965

    Various Artists

    Basement Beehive: The Girl Group Underground, 2018

  • Bruce Davidson

    Bruce Davidson

    East 100th Street, Spanish Harlem, NYC, 1966

    Various Artists

    The NuYorican Funk Experience, 2003

  • Bruce Davidson

    Bruce Davidson

    Untitled (Family In Kitchen), From The Series "East 100th Street", 1966-1968

    Various Artists

    Son Cubano NYC (Cuban Roots New York Spices 1972-1982), 2004

  • Bruce Davidson

    Bruce Davidson

    Unknown Title, Unknown Date

    Various Artists

    Boogaloo Pow Wow — Dancefloor Rendez-Vous In Young Nuyorica, 2006

  • Burt Glinn

    Burt Glinn

    On The Set Of "Suddenly Last Summer", 1959

    Various Artists

    Sound Image (Number 1, 1975), 1975

  • Carl Mydans

    Carl Mydans

    Cotton Workers On The Road, Carrying All They Possess In The World, 1936

    Various Artists

    Walking Blues, 1979

  • Chris Steele-Perkins

    Chris Steele-Perkins

    Limbo Competition At A Festival In Brixton, London, England, 1974

    Various Artists

    Wanted Afrobeat, 2017

  • Chris Steele-Perkins

    Chris Steele-Perkins

    Disco In Wolverhampton, England, 1978

    Various Artists

    Wanted Soul, 2017

  • Constantine Manos

    Constantine Manos

    Watching The Dance. Karpathos, Greece, 1964

    Various Artists

    Greek Villages, 1975

  • Danny Lyon

    Danny Lyon

    Road To Yazoo City, Mississippi, 1964

    Various Artists

    Memphis .... On Down The Post-War Blues: Volume 2, 1966

  • Danny Lyon

    Danny Lyon

    Unknown Title, Unknown Date

    Various Artists

    Memphis And The Delta 1950s, 1967

  • Diane Arbus

    Diane Arbus

    Child With A Toy Hand Grenade In Central Park, NYC, 1962

    Various Artists

    Mariacka / Mein Freund Der Baum, 2014

  • Dorothea Lange

    Dorothea Lange

    Farmhouse And Landscape Of Tenant Family As Seen From The Road. Near Pittsboro, North Carolina, 1939

    Various Artists

    Going Back On The Farm, Blues In Chicago 1940-1942, 1985

  • Dorothea Lange

    Dorothea Lange

    Country Store On Dirt Road Sunday Afternoon, 1939

    Various Artists

    The Georgia Blues 1927-1933, 1970 (c.)

  • Eli Reed

    Eli Reed

    A Long Walk Home, 1987

    Various Artists

    Disco Juice Volume 2, 2002

  • Ernest Cole

    Ernest Cole

    Untitled, From The Series "The True America", 1968–1971

    Various Artists

    If You're Not Part Of The Solution... (Soul, Politics And Spirituality In Jazz 1967 To 1975), 2019

  • George Rodger

    George Rodger

    Afro-Caribbean Immigrants Arrive At Waterloo Station In London, England, 1964

    Various Artists

    London Is The Place For Me: Trinidadian Calypso In London, 1950-1956, 2002

  • Inge Morath

    Inge Morath

    Brazilian Nights Ball At The Pierre Hotel On Fifth Avenue, New York City, 1958

    Various Artists

    Disco Discharge. Classic Disco, 2024

  • Jack Delano

    Jack Delano

    In The Convict Camp In Greene County, Georgia, 1941

    Various Artists

    East Coast Blues 1926-1935, 1968

  • Jacob Riis

    Jacob Riis

    Street Arabs In Sleeping Quarters, Church Corner, NYC, 1889 (c.)

    Various Artists

    God's Chosen People, 1993

  • Jacques Henri Lartigue

    Jacques Henri Lartigue

    The Appian Way, Rome, Italy, January, 1960

    Various Artists

    Symphonie Nr. 8. Symphonie Nr. 4. Italienische, 1980

  • Jean Depara

    Jean Depara

    Young Woman In Front Of Afro Negro Club', Kinshasa, D.R.Congo, 1955-1965

    Various Artists

    The World Is Shaking: Cubanismo From The Congo, 1954-55, 2009

  • Joel Meyerowitz

    Joel Meyerowitz

    Broadway And West 46th Street, New York, 1976

    Various Artists

    Funk Drops (Breaks, Nuggets And Rarities From The Vaults Of Atlantic, ATCO, Reprise And Warner Bros. Records 1968-1974), 2001

  • Leonard Freed

    Leonard Freed

    The Fire Hydrants Are Opened During The Summer Heat. Harlem, NYC, USA, 1963

    Various Artists

    The Rebirth Of Cool Six, 1996

  • Malick Sidibé

    Malick Sidibé

    Merengue Dancer, 1964

    Various Artists

    Golden Afrique, 2017

  • Malick Sidibé

    Malick Sidibé

    Les Trois Amis Avec Motos, 1975

    Various Artists

    The Original Sound Of Mali, 2017

  • Mika Kitamura

    Mika Kitamura

    Untitled, 2018

    Various Artists

    Midnight In Tokyo Vol.2, 2018

  • Oscar Marzaroli

    Oscar Marzaroli

    Expectation, Celtic End, Cup Final, Hampden Park, 1963

    Various Artists

    The Tree And The Bird And The Fish And The Bell, 1991

  • Ouka Leele

    Ouka Leele

    Unknown Title, Unknown Date

    Various Artists

    El Chico Mas Palido De La Playa Del Gros, 1991

  • Pieter Hugo

    Pieter Hugo

    Mallam Mantari Lamal With Mainasara, 2005

    Various Artists

    Lagos Shake: A Tony Allen Chop Up, 2008

  • Robert F. Sargent

    Robert F. Sargent

    Taxis To Hell — And Back — Into the Jaws Of Death, 1944

    Various Artists

    Historic Voices And Music From World War II, 1966

  • Rudolf Fisch

    Rudolf Fisch

    African In European Clothing, 1885-1911

    Various Artists

    Living Is Hard: West African Music In Britain, 1927-1929, 2008

  • Russell Lee

    Russell Lee

    Men's Section At A Fais-Do-Do Dance, 1938

    Various Artists

    Louisiana Cajun And Creole Music, 1934: The Lomax Recordings, 1987

  • Sanlé Sory

    Sanlé Sory

    Yacouba Zero, From The Series "Peuple De La Nuit", 1970

    Various Artists

    The Original Sound Of Burkina Faso, 2017

  • Walker Evans

    Walker Evans

    View Of Railroad Station, Edwards, Mississippi, 1936

    Various Artists

    Ramblin' On My Mind: A Collection Of Classic Train And Travel Blues, 1966

  • Walker Evans

    Walker Evans

    Mule Team And Poster, Alabama, 1936

    Various Artists

    Early Ragtime Piano: 1913-1930, 1977

  • Walker Evans

    Walker Evans

    Show Poster In Alabama Town, 1936

    Various Artists

    Ragtime Piano Novelties Of The 20's, 1980

  • Walker Evans

    Walker Evans

    Ferry And River Men. Vicksburg, Mississippi, 1936

    Various Artists

    The Perry Bradford Story: Pioneer Of The Blues, 1980

  • Weegee (Arthur Fellig)

    Weegee (Arthur Fellig)

    Children Playing In Water Sprayed From Open Fire Hydrant, Upper West Side, New York, 1937

    Various Artists

    I'm Your Fan: The Songs Of Leonard Cohen By..., 1991

  • Weegee (Arthur Fellig)

    Weegee (Arthur Fellig)

    Woman Shot From Cannon, New York, 1943

    Various Artists

    Transmission Sampler 01, 1984

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