Results have been tabulated from last week's Album Cover Quiz. The winner was Dan Szpara whose reply scored a near-perfect 65 out of 66 points possible. He will soon receive a collection of fabulous* gifts and prizes arriving in the mail. Congrats to Dan, and thanks to everyone who submitted answers.
After this latest round, I suspect that photographs are too easily researched, rendering these quizzes sort of meaningless as pure knowledge exercises. So this may be the last one. But I think the quizzes are still interesting as a resource connecting music and photography. In the four album cover quizzes so far I've dug up about 60 album covers with appropriated photos.
I'm sure there are many more out there which I don't know about, but there is no good online resource cataloging them. Tracking examples down is a pain in the ass. So I'm appealing to the hive mind. If you know of other examples of album covers which use noncommissioned (preferably well known) photographs, please send me a note. Not for future quizzes, but because I want to create a large database of all of them, similar to what Karl Baden has done for book covers. Thanks.
Anyway, here's last week's quiz with answer key:
1.
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| Neal Boenzi, Manhattan, 1966 |
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| Vampire Weekend, Modern Vampires Of The City |
2.
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| Clay Lipsky, Atomic Overlook Series, 2012 |
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| Clockwork, Surge |
3.
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| John Pfahl, Triangle, Bermuda, 1975 |
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| Hiroshima, Another Place |
4.
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| Matt Weber, Kids On Fence, 1988 |
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| Casey Neill And The Norway Rats, All You Pretty Vandals |
5.
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| Eugene Salignac, Painters On The Brooklyn Bridge, 1914 |
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| Elliott Carter, Figments and Fragments |
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| Steve Reich, New York Counterpoint, Eight Lines, Four Organs |
6.
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| Jason Evans, Untitled, 2014 |
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| Caribou, Our Love |
7.
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| Vivian Maier, Marina City, Chicago, 1965 |
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| Wilco, Alpha Mike Foxtrot |
8.
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| Arthur Rothstein, Farmer and Sons Walking in the Face of a Dust Storm, 1936 |
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| Woody Guthrie, Dust Bowl Ballads |
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| Swingin' Utters, Fistful of Hollow |
9.
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| Sergie Chilikov, Alatyr, 1995 |
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| Beirut, Gulag Orkestar |
10.
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| Alec Soth, from Dog Days Bogota, 2003 |
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| Yasushi Ide, Late Night Blues |
11.
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| Eadweard Muybridge, Plate 444 from Locomotion Series, 1887 |
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| Sons Of An Illustrious Father, EP |
12.
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| Missy Prince, Untitled, 2011 |
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| Xolo, Future Home |
13.
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| Corey Arnold, The North Sea, 2011 |
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| Volcano Choir, Repave |
14.
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| Pete Turner, Road Song, 1967 |
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| Wes Montgomery, Road Song |
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