It was the first Pink Floyd cover not to feature the band's name on the cover, nor to contain any photographs of the band anywhere. This striking print celebrates Atom Heart Mother, a big breakthrough for Pink Floyd who, in 1970 managed to get to No.1 with one of the world's most progressive psychedelic albums featuring neither title nor band photo on the front just a cow. Very few of any of these images were produced.The Atom Heart Mother limited edition print was one of the very first selection of Pink Floyd album cover designs to be revisited and re-envisaged as an art print by Storm Thorgerson at the very beginning of this century. These photographs were produced as signed, open editions and were only briefly available for sale as they were intended only for the anniversary celebration. In 2008, Storm and SFAE celebrated Pink Floyd's 40th anniversary with an exhibition of signed photographs of images that he had created for the band over the years both as a founding member of the design collective Hipgnosis, and as an independent designer with StormStudios. Still, nobody knows the nature of the link between sales and design, if one exists at all." - Storm Thorgerson The cow was, in fact, more eye-catching than I had ever dared imagine it was so different because it was so normal: so ordinary it stood out a mile.Atom Heart Mother was the big breakthrough in the UK despite the fact that the record company hated the cover. Not shocking, not mind altering, just unexpected. Photography by Hipgnosis."I wanted to design a non-cover, something that was not like other covers, particularly not like other rock or psychedelic covers – something that one would simply not expect. This was the front cover of Atom Heart Mother, Pink Floyd's fourth studio album, recorded at Abbey Road Studios.Image courtesy of Pink Floyd.
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