Cover art preservation ... a lost art?
Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2007 5:56 amI just wanted to know if anyone here is interested in archiving obscure or hard to find cover art.
When I visit a band discography on the web, it usually contains small, poorly scanned and damaged picture sleeves and cover art.
Visit Duran Duran's official website to see what I mean.
This also seems to carry over in liner notes with illustrated discographies for reissued CDs.
I find these things very disappointing to view.
At my daytime job i retouch and restore commercially photographed products and in my spare time I archive cover art using the same techniques.
Sometimes I wonder why an official band's website or reissue CD would have such mediocre imagery compared to the rest of their professionally made product.
All the best,
eighties
When I visit a band discography on the web, it usually contains small, poorly scanned and damaged picture sleeves and cover art.
Visit Duran Duran's official website to see what I mean.
This also seems to carry over in liner notes with illustrated discographies for reissued CDs.
I find these things very disappointing to view.
At my daytime job i retouch and restore commercially photographed products and in my spare time I archive cover art using the same techniques.
Sometimes I wonder why an official band's website or reissue CD would have such mediocre imagery compared to the rest of their professionally made product.
All the best,
eighties