Bob Seidemann is an American graphic artist and photographer best known for the creation of several album covers and portraits of musicians in the 1960s and 1970s. An album cover is a cover used to package commercial audio recordings such as the printed cardboard covers that were typically used to package 12 gramophone records from the 1960s through to the 1980s when the 12 record was the major format for distribution of popular music. ...

Seidemann first gained notoriety in 1967 for a photographic interpretation of the Pieta. He reversed the traditional subjects, depicting a mourning male cradling a the body of a nude female, with a graphic combination of sexuality and violence. This article is about a form of art. ...

In 1969, Eric Clapton formed a new band and Seidemann was commissioned to create the cover for their album. Seidemann photographed a nude 11 year-old girl to create what would become his most famous and controversial work, entitled "Blind Faith". Not only did it become the cover and title of the album, but the band as well. An example of the famous Clapton is God graffiti craze Eric Patrick Clapton CBE (born March 30, 1945), nicknamed Slowhand, is a Grammy Award winning English guitarist, singer and composer, who is one of the most respected and influential musicians of the rock era, garnering an unprecedented three inductions into... Blind Faith is the self-titled debut and sole album of the British blues supergroup Blind Faith, which consisted of Eric Clapton, Ginger Baker, Steve Winwood and Rick Grech. ... There are other articles with similar names; see Blind Faith (disambiguation). ...

Although unpublished until her death, Seidemann's 1967 portraits of a semi-nude Janis Joplin earned him wide acclaim. In fact, a Baron Wolman photo of Joplin used a number of the earlier Seidemann portraits as a backdrop. Seidemann also photographed The Grateful Dead a number of times during their peak, both for posters and album liners, as well as designing the covers for Go to Heaven and Jerry Garcia's debut solo album, Garcia. Other works include the cover of Jackson Browne's Late for the Sky, Neil Young's On the Beach, and numerous concert posters for bands such as Traffic and Big Brother and the Holding Company. Janis Lyn Joplin (January 19, 1943 – October 4, 1970) was an American blues-influenced rock singer and occasional songwriter with a highly distinctive voice. ... Baron Wolman was the first chief photographer of Rolling Stone. ... Jerry Garcia later in life The Grateful Dead was an American rock band, which was formed in 1965 in San Francisco from the remnants of another band, Mother McCrees Uptown Jug Champions. ... Go to Heaven is a 1980 album by the Grateful Dead. ... Jerome John Jerry Garcia (August 1, 1942 – August 9, 1995) was the lead guitarist and vocalist of the psychedelic rock band the Grateful Dead. ... Garcia is Grateful Dead guitarist Jerry Garcias first solo album, released in 1972. ... Clyde Jackson Browne (born October 9, 1948) is an American rock musician, whose introspective lyrics made him the long-haired, Southern Californian poster child of the confessional singer-songwriter movement. ... Late for the Sky is the third album by American singer/songwriter Jackson Browne, released in 1974 (see 1974 in music). ... Neil Percival Young OM (born November 12, 1945, Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist and film director who grew up during his teen years in Winnipeg, Manitoba. ... On the Beach is a rock album by Neil Young, released in 1974. ... Traffic on the cover of their eponymous 1968 album. ... Big Brother and the Holding Company was a rock band formed in San Francisco in 1965 as part of the psychedelic music scene that also produced the Grateful Dead and Jefferson Airplane. ...

From the late 1980s through the 1990s, Seidemann took a series of 302 aviation-themed photographs entitled "The Airplane as Art". The collection sold at Sotheby's on October 12, 2000, for $236,750.^[1] PR shot of Sothebys New York, from auditions for The Apprentice 2  It should be possible to replace this fair use image with a freely licensed one. ... October 12 is the 285th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (286th in leap years). ... This article is about the year 2000. ...

References

1. ^ Caroline Krockow. Art Market Watch.

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