Quiz #24: Cover Art Reprise

It's time for a holiday edition of The Album Cover Quiz. If you're looking for something to do over Thanksgiving break with family, gather them around the computer and have a go at it. Good luck!

Round one. Below are 10 noncommisioned photographs used on album covers. Score 1 point for identifying the photographer and 1 point for identifying the album.

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Round two. Score 1 point for identifying the photographer, 1 point for identifying the meta-photographer, 1 point for the album.

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Round three. The photographs below were not used as actual cover art but served as rough models for album covers. Score 1 point for identifying the photographer and 1 point for identifying the album.

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Round four. For 3 points, name a photograph which appears noncommissioned on an album cover and on two book covers.

There are 30 points possible. The person who first emails me the answer with the highest point total before next Wednesday, 12/1, at 8 am PST will win a copy of In-Public's 10 along with an original print from the book.

Happy Holidays. I'm off for the next few days.

Quiz #32: Album Covers

It's time for another round of The Album Cover Quiz.

Below are 14 noncommissioned photographs used as cover art on music albums. Score 1 point for identifying the photographer, 1 point for identifying the photograph's title/year, and 2 points for identifying the album. One photograph below is used on two separate album covers. Each identification scores 2 points. If you've never won a B quiz, give yourself 8 bonus points (Sorry, Alexandros).

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There a total of 66 sinister points possible. The first person to email me the response with the highest point total before Sunday, June 7th, at 9 AM PDT wins a fiber print, a CD mix featuring music from the above albums, and everlasting glory. Good luck!

Quiz #32 Wrapup / Appeal

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:

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Neal Boenzi, Manhattan, 1966

Vampire Weekend, Modern Vampires Of The City

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Clay Lipsky, Atomic Overlook Series, 2012

Clockwork, Surge

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John Pfahl, Triangle, Bermuda, 1975

Hiroshima, Another Place

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Matt Weber, Kids On Fence, 1988 

Casey Neill And The Norway Rats, All You Pretty Vandals

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Eugene Salignac, Painters On The Brooklyn Bridge, 1914

Elliott Carter, Figments and Fragments

Steve Reich, New York Counterpoint, Eight Lines, Four Organs

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Jason Evans, Untitled, 2014

Caribou, Our Love

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Vivian Maier, Marina City, Chicago, 1965

Wilco, Alpha Mike Foxtrot

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Arthur Rothstein, Farmer and Sons Walking in the Face of a Dust Storm, 1936

Woody Guthrie, Dust Bowl Ballads

Swingin' Utters, Fistful of Hollow

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Sergie Chilikov, Alatyr, 1995

Beirut, Gulag Orkestar

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Alec Soth, from Dog Days Bogota, 2003

Yasushi Ide, Late Night Blues

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Eadweard Muybridge, Plate 444 from Locomotion Series, 1887

Sons Of An Illustrious Father, EP

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Missy Prince, Untitled, 2011

Xolo, Future Home

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Corey Arnold, The North Sea, 2011

Volcano Choir, Repave

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Pete Turner, Road Song, 1967

Wes Montgomery, Road Song

*Interpretations of "fabulous" subject to variation