| David Ackles: Album Cover Photos | |||
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| The front cover (above) of his first album, David Ackles, with the broken pane and the out-of-focus figure of David and (right) the photo used on the back of the album sleeve. |
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The front cover (above) of his first album, reissued as The Road to Cairo, with a more conventional photo (although, am I the only one to think it's got classical Greek associations?) and (right) the photo used on the back of the album sleeve. |
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| The front and back pictures on the album sleeve for Subway to the Country. Jude is the patron saint of lost causes - a theme that permeates the album & much of Ackles' work. | |||
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David,
along with Janice Vogel, pictured on the back porch of their house in
Bedfordshire, England during the making of American Gothic.
The pose is significant, in replicating the classic painting of early settlers, American Gothic by Grant Wood (1850-1942). He was a founder of the movement known as Regionalism and his work shows the influence of German and Flemish painters of the 15th Century. Wood's most famous painting, American Gothic was completed in 1930 and it is held in the Art Institute of Chicago. Movie fans will recall a similar pose being struck at the start of Rocky Horror Picture Show. |
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| Front sleeve pictures from American Gothic, Five and Dime and the planned, but never-released There Is a River: The Elektra Recordings. | |||
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