The Rolling Stones' iconic psychedelic album cover for Their Satanic Majesties Request, from 1967.
Michael Cooper had helped to build and photographed the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album cover, and was a close friend of the Stones, Keith in particular. The Stones didn't want to copy The Beatles, but they were inspired to produce something along the same lines, as psychedelia was having a broad impact on music and culture worldwide.
In order to make something equally captivating, Cooper decided he wanted to make the cover using 3D technology, and the only studio he knew that had the equipment was just outside of New York City.
On September 13, 1967 the Stones traveled to New York and spent the next couple of days building the set and finding the appropriate costumes to don for the album cover. The entire set was built by Michael Cooper and the Rolling Stones at Pictorial Productions in Mount Vernon, NY, and the process was documented with several other photographs in this archive.
Release Notes:
Michael Cooper passed away in 1973 leaving a massive personal and professional archive of negatives shot going back to the mid 1960s. Very few, if any photographs had been printed in a commercial fomat by that time, so there are no signed versions available for sale.
The Michael Cooper Estate has released museum-quality limited editions in several sizes and made them available for collectors.
Collector's Notes:
The Michael Cooper Estate photographs are printed to order, so please allow 2-4 weeks for delivery. Each photograph will be numbered and marked by the estate.
Buyers will receive a certificate of authenticity following delivery of their photograph.