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The Danube River and Budapest riverside with The Building of Parliament on the left, seen from Margaret Bridge.
Budapest, Hungary
Taken September 11, 2016 - 15th Anniversary of the attack
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La Cathédrale Saint-Pierre telle «un vaisseau de pierre dorée aux profonds contreforts» donne l'aspect, vue de loin, d'une église forteresse, elle domine la ville de Condom. Classée Monument historique, la Cathédrale Saint-Pierre de Condom accueille chaque année des milliers de visiteurs.
Re-posted on the annual day of this album coming out originally posted in 2010. On the 13 August 2019 Led Zeppelin Instagram showcased the original artwork from the iconic album featured in the 50th Anniversary book 'Led Zeppelin by Led Zeppelin'. They also include details that I was unaware of like who took the photograph. This post has been very popular with 107,500 views as of 25 February 2021.
What follows is my observation in seeking out the location of this iconic album cover and further design and album details updated.
Whilst in New York this year it was a must that I find the tenement block that featured on my favorite and Led Zeppelin's biggest album Physical Graffiti. When I got back home I set about changing my photographic view to match the cover artwork. On the web it is widely known that the building is 5 stories high, but on the cover the building has only 4 stories. When I started to compare my photograph and the album artwork I soon realised that as well as the 4th floor being removed, artist Peter Corriston also added a number of further elements that include extra tiles, faces and sides of the building. Part of the top right railing balcony was left out for a whole window frame to be visible. See my notes below. I have just amended the Wikipedia listing with these new findings.
Artist Peter Corriston worked with designer Mike Doud to convince Led Zeppelin manager, Peter Grant, that the cover art idea was a good one. Unlikely as it may seem, the concept was itself heavily influenced by the design for Jose Feliciano’s album, Compartments (1973). The new version was created by using a photograph of a New York apartment block, situated at 96-98 St. Marks Place.
Peter Corriston recalls: "We walked around the city for a few weeks looking for the right building. I had come up with a concept for the band based on the tenement, people living there and moving in and out. The original (vinyl) album featured the building with the windows cut out on the cover and various sleeves that could be placed under the cover, filling the windows with the album title, track information or liner notes".
The tenements were shot by New York photographer Elliott Erwitt. The front-cover shot was taken in daylight and the back was taken at night. Sepia prints were made for the outer package and they and the inner bags were then hand-coloured by Maurice Tate - the best hand-retoucher in London at that time. Jimmy Page described the cover as "A peeping tom's delight". The title was coined by Page to convey the amount of physical energy and creative writing that had gone into producing the recordings for the album.
The building is still standing today. In the basement is a second-hand clothes shop. The name of the shop is, naturally, Physical Graffiti.
Although Physical Graffiti was originally designed to be the debut release on the Swan Song label, the album’s elaborate cover art, which features a New York City tenement with interchangeable images visible through the building’s die-cut windows, forced a delay. The release of Bad Company thus took the Swan Song debut honour all the way to the top of the Billboard album chart. Within six months Physical Graffiti also hit that peak, giving Led Zeppelin another number one album, in the week of March 22, 1975. The centrepiece of the album is a song called Kashmir. Despite the fact that Stairway To Heaven is the band’s best-known song, Kashmir is generally considered to be the ultimate Led Zeppelin track.
An eclectic gallery of celebrities and icons inhabit the building and they can be spied through the windows. Amongst the tenants therein are Lee Harvey Oswald, Neil Armstrong, Elizabeth Taylor, King Kong, Charles Atlas, Queen Elizabeth, Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s portrait of Proserpine, the Virgin Mary and Laurel & Hardy. Perhaps I should do a second version with these figures in the windows or with the lettering.
Peter Corriston lives and works in the heart of Greenwich Village.
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And see the sun when day is done
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That came to stay one rainy day
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Love Park in Philadelphia. This is the Robert Indiana sculpture in John F. Kennedy Plaza which was first installed in 1976. I took this a few weeks ago while visiting Phillly when I spent one evening on a blue hour shoot around the downtown.
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Les grandes ailes de Kasteel meulen au sommet du mont qui culmine à 176 mètres, point stratégique. En allant vers la gauche on découvre la statue du maréchal Foch.
this is the newly restored and retrofitted premier cathedral of the philippines, the manila cathedral. this latest restoration was done in preparation for the visit of pope francis last january, 2015. this church is located within the historical walled spanish fort of intramuros and is a famous tourist attraction because of its long history!
On a walk around the city catching up on the earthquake rebuild. August 22, 2017 Christchurch New Zealand.
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It is the garden that attracts most of the visitors to the island.
The Italian-style gardens are organized on ten terraces, arranged in way to form a big truncated pyramid.
The statue of the Unicorn (heraldic emblem of the Borromeo family) which has on its sides the statues of Nature and Art together with several stone figures of the ancient mythology.