Robert Frank, John Van Hamersveld, Norman Seeff, Rolling Stones Records
Album cover for The Rolling Stones, Exile on Main St.
1972
Lithograph
Not on view
Frank’s photograph Tattoo Parlor (1958), probably taken, despite the title, at Hubert’s Dime Museum and Flea Circus in Times Square, New York, appears on the front cover of the Rolling Stones’ Exile on Main St. For the back cover, Frank created a montage of images taken from Super 8 footage he shot of the Stones in Los Angeles, in the neighborhood known as Skid Row (along downtown’s Main Street) and in a lush Bel Air garden. In other frames, handwritten lyrics from the album’s songs are overlaid onto photographs from Frank’s book The Americans. Frank later joined the band for the album’s tour, resulting in the film Cocksucker Blues, which the band suppressed.
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American, born Switzerland.1924–2019 294 works onlineRobert Frank’s restless, gritty, melancholic vision marked him as an astute documentarian of the postwar American landscape. Born into a German-Jewish family in Zurich in 1924, he developed an interest in photography at an early age and apprenticed with several photographers in his teens.
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