Talk:Storm Thorgerson

Untitled
Much of the content of this page has been lifted from the following webpage:

http://www.takenbystorm.us/bio.php

which is a bio of Storm Thorgerson from his own page. ..

What is normally done about this type of thing? Doctordavidoff@hotmail.com 02:57, 30 April 2006 (UTC)
 * I marked it, thank you for pointing it out. --Rory096 03:00, 30 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Actually if you check the edit history, you will find that the original source was a press release. I imagine a press release would be intended for copying and re-use. So this is not a case of a long standing copyright violation. The question is, is it a problem to use press releases in this way. -- Solipsist 07:26, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

Pink Floyd's back catalogue
There is an article http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_19971011/ai_n14137530 on how Storm also worked on the Pink Floyd Back Catalogue bodyart photo in 1996. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Vk2tds (talk • contribs) 06:12, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

Octavarium
The artwork for Dream Theater's Octavarium was done by Hugh Syme (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Syme), not Storm Thorgerson. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 195.92.67.75 (talk) 20:29, 18 February 2007 (UTC).

...Is anyone going to do anything about this? 217.134.84.161 14:23, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

Why don't you? I mean the page is editable by anyone. Kind of the point of wikipedia. :)

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More TMV work
Storm Thorgerson also did the cover work to the singles for "Inertiatic ESP" and "Televators" by The Mars Volta...Can someone please add that in and possibly link to it? I'm too technologically unstable to even attempt doing it, myself. Thank you.

Not sure this is a correct list of all his own work
Hipgnosis was an agency, and thus I think he's taking credit as an art director/partner for all of the work.

e.g. - look at Peter Chistopherson's wiki page - it includes designs and comments from P.C. that Storm is claiming as his? Esp. the PG albums...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Christopherson

So who is correct?

In most agencies a lot of people work on projects like this, which is why they credit the agency, and also makes sole credit hard... Timbearcub (talk) 18:38, 27 September 2008 (UTC) --

I have removed two totally incorrect albums; Beatles Abbey Road and Nirvana Nevermind. And I agree on the above mentioned question about solo and Hipgnosis work. Simple solution would be to remove the Hipgnosis work and refer to the Hipgnosis page, the ref is actually already there but Hipgnosis work still included in the list - so not consistent. //Bernt — Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.250.144.87 (talk) 09:50, 8 August 2015 (UTC)

New external link
I have added a link to a video of the artist talking about his album cover work and how his practice has been influenced by the works of Magritte. In the link I have linked to Magritte's Wikipage, so that readers interested in this artist have direct access to more information on his work. T.Broch (talk) 13:37, 17 August 2011 (UTC)

Assessment comment
Substituted at 07:07, 30 April 2016 (UTC)

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Reverted gallery
I recently added a short gallery of some of Thorgerson's work to the page, but it got reverted. I don't really understand the reasoning provided, as it seems to me to have been fair use of the images. Also, there's already a picture of Dark Side of the Moon on the page that provides a visual example of Thorgerson's work. Which seems important for someone known for their visual works. Any thoughts? Tactical Fiend (talk) 18:23, 6 July 2018 (UTC)

Led Zeppelin / House of the Holy
In the article about this Led Zeppelin album, we can read:

"Page has stated that the album cover was the second version submitted by Hipgnosis. The first, by artist Storm Thorgerson, featured an electric green tennis court with a tennis racket on it. Furious that Thorgerson was implying, by means of a visual pun, that their music sounded like a 'racket', the band fired him and hired Powell in his place."

Reference: Tolinski, Brad; Di Bendetto, Greg (January 1998). "Light and Shade". Guitar World.

Prior, in the article, it is said that Aubrey Powell did the artwork.

So... how can this album be listed within Storm's "Album cover designs (1968–2014)" section?

It should be removed. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 191.54.24.254 (talk) 21:21, 11 April 2020 (UTC)

Ok. I went ahead and did the removal myself. At least it is properly justified, as written above. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 191.54.24.254 (talk) 21:24, 11 April 2020 (UTC)

Wiki Education assignment: History of Modern Design
— Assignment last updated by Antje Gamble (talk) 16:18, 12 October 2022 (UTC)