vision thing cover

paint it black · 19 Oct 2004, 22:18

could it be the chrysler building von's favourite building around then.

remember hunting down the reptile house artwork ? could be fun

19 Oct 2004, 22:58

Go knock yourselves out, kids.

_emma_ · 20 Oct 2004, 08:27

Why do I seem to recall an interview in which he said something about a "dark photo of Detroit?"

Or is my memory playing tricks? One thing I'm sure is the interview was from between 1990 - 1992.

Gottdammerung · 20 Oct 2004, 13:05

.... my first copy of it was second hand... the CD case was so scuzzy I didn't even realise that the cover had another picture beneath the Eye of Horus till about two years later when I actually looked at the front of the booklet, rather than the inside...

paint it black · 20 Oct 2004, 13:12

_emma_ wrote:Why do I seem to recall an interview in which he said something about a "dark photo of Detroit?"
Or is my memory playing tricks? One thing I'm sure is the interview was from between 1990 - 1992.

didn't know that

cool,

certainally it makes more sense to me that, given the context of the record, it's somewhere in america rather than hamburg: which has previously been mooted. do you still have the article somewhere

_emma_ · 21 Oct 2004, 09:28

Found it. It happened after the gig in Wroclaw, Poland, 1991, and it was rather a chat in a pub (AE without shades - allegedly) than a proper interview. The whole thing was reported by T. Beksinski, whose imagination and the habit to "add things from himself" were in my opinion rather overgrown, so it may be nothing more than a rumour. Anyway according to him, when Mrs Monika asked why the Eye of Horus on the cover, AE answered that the symbol didn't matter at all there, and that for the same reason there was a dark photo of Detroit.
He might have been drunk (allegedly, he was) and just kidding, or just not in the mood to linger on the topic and thus made up anything quickly, then again he might have never said it at all.

As I said, it's not an official interview!
2 more anectdotes from the same article: When some g*** fans approached him for a photo and an autograph, he said "I'm off duty" and "f*** off", and when he tried to change the channel on TV (it was an old TV, no remote control, hung above the bar), he nearly fell of a chair on which he'd climbed to reach the switch.

Allegedly.

Gottdammerung · 21 Oct 2004, 09:42

Hmmm... the imagery is kind of straight forward per se.. given.. the 'Vision Thing' - US political phrase, Eye of Horus being the All Seing Eye etc... then the contrast with the vision and reality.. i.e Detroit.. Motor City and its irreversible decline... a neat, compact comment maybe....

As for the photo.. reminds me a lot of the photos done in the 30s of US cities.. (used to have one on me wall but that made way for a DDR flag....).. I'll have a bit of a dig about and see if I can come up with the photographer.. might be the same person..

Gottdammerung · 21 Oct 2004, 10:15

Maybe done by the Fairchild Aerial Survey Corporation, owned by Sherman Fairchild... did loads of them..

You'll see the similarity.. I reckon the darkness of the picture on the VT cover is because its a duotone..

Et voila...

http://sbiii.com/avpix/fairchny.jpg

http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/coastline/ ... ne0988.jpg

(their pretty big pics so I won't put them up here)