This surreal image of a man swimming in the desert encapsulates many of the thematic elements of Storm Thorgerson's larger body of work.
"I’m trying to think: What binds my work together? And that is most defiantly obsessive thinking. Neat ideas. I always come back to the similar objects. I am obsessed with beds and that has little to do with sex, it has more likely something to do with sleeping. And I am obsessed with water. And the human body, male and female alike. And animals. And wide open landscapes of course, the opposite to caves and tunnels." - Storm Thorgerson
Image Courtesy of Pink Floyd. Photography by Hipgnosis.
Lambda Exhibition History:
Mind Over Matter - The Images of Pink Floyd: 40 Years of Collaboration with Storm Thorgerson of Hipgnosis and StormStudios, June - July, 2008, San Francisco Art Exchange, San Francisco, CA.
Lambda Release Notes:
In 2008, Storm Thorgerson and SFAE celebrated Pink Floyd's 40th anniversary with an exhibition of signed Lambda digital C-Type photographic prints of album cover related images that he had created for the band over the previous 40 years.
These included works he produced both as a founding member of the design collective Hipgnosis, and as an independent designer with StormStudios.
The Lambda printing process involves using lasers to expose a photo-sensitive paper which is then wet-processed, similar to a tradtional dark room photographic print.
Storm's Lambda prints were produced as signed, open editions and were only briefly available for sale as they were intended only for the anniversary celebration. Relatively few of any single image were produced.
Lambda Collector's Notes:
Each color photograph was printed to order in the UK and then hand-signed by Storm Thorgerson. When he passed away, he did not leave an archive of these prints behind, only the handful that he had pre-printed and signed for exhibition remained available in our inventory.
Occasionally we may also have one available for resale from a private collector.
The individual print details are below, please contact us for the latest availability.
12" x 16" Sheet Size
Signed, Open Edition
Lambda Digital C-Type Print - SOLD OUT