The gallery will be closed on Thanksgiving. Pure Music Manufacturing welcomes you to another edition of ‘Behind the Cover’ where we take a closer look at the details behind a well-known album release. Ma/ in Behind The Cover / by Toni Marino. "I guess I took them because I felt that this experience and this landscape and this moment in time ought to be remembered and possibly at some point shared."įollowing the event, the photos will be on display at ARCANE Space during the venue's regular hours - Tuesdays, and Thursdays through Sundays from 11 a.m. U2 Will Soon Understand The Significance of ‘The Joshua Tree.’. "I took these photographs without a clear sense of where they might end up," says the Irish rocker. All proceeds raised by the sales will be donated to the GO Campaign, a nonprofit organization based in Santa Monica, California, that aids orphans and vulnerable children around the world. In addition, limited-edition prints of individual photos taken by The Edge will be sold at the gallery. PT, and the images will remain on display through December 17. A opening reception for The Joshua Tree: Photography by The Edge exhibit will take place November 22 at 6 p.m. Those images now will be put on public display for the first time at an exhibit that opens next week at the ARCANE Space gallery at Los Angeles' Venice Beach. During the excursion, guitarist The Edge took his own pictures documenting the trip. Journal Media does not control and is not responsible for the content of external websites.Kevin Mazur/WireImageIn 1986, U2 headed into the California desert to take photos for the cover of their classic album The Joshua Tree. Users are reminded that they are fully responsible for their own created content and their own posts, comments and submissions and fully and effectively warrant and indemnify Journal Media in relation to such content and their ability to make such content, posts, comments and submissions available.
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TheJournal.ie supports the work of the Press Council of Ireland and the Office of the Press Ombudsman, and our staff operate within the Code of Practice. Steve reckons the cover was an “unusual” move for a band just starting out: It has since been re-released with the original cover. The band famously feared the picture would have “connotations of paedophilia” in the US, and changed to a distorted group shot. The boy on the now-iconic is Peter Rowan (brother of Bono’s good friend, the artist Guggi) who is now an accomplished photographer in his own right. Speaking to DailyEdge.ie, Steve revealed the stories behind some of U2′s most memorable album covers. He’s also worked on album artwork for Something Happens, Clannad, Elvis Costello and more recently, The Script. U2′S CONSISTENTLY STRIKING album covers have become some of the most iconic album sleeves in the history of music.īut iconic images don’t just happen – U2 have long relied on Irish graphic designer Steve Averill to help them construct the perfect album artwork.Īlong with his working partner Shaughn McGrath, Steve has been the creative force behind the majority of U2′s album sleeves since 1978.