Pink Floyd, A Momentary Lapse of Reason Album Cover, 1987
By Storm Thorgerson
About the image
This was the front cover of Pink Floyd's A Momentary Lapse of Reason, the band's first release after the departure of Roger Waters.
Image courtesy Pink Floyd. Photography by StormStudios.
This is an amazing image, produced in real time and photographed!
In Storm's own words: "What you get is what you see: 700 wrought iron beds all individually made up and each weighing several tons, or so it seemed by the end of the day. The photograph...is a 35mm color transparency taken when the tide was on the turn and came rushing back, flooding all the beds in the blink of an eye. Wet dream, or what.”
Lambda Release Notes:
In 2008, Storm and SFAE celebrated Pink Floyd's 40th anniversary with an exhibition of signed photographs of images that he had created for the band over the years both as a founding member of the design collective Hipgnosis, and as an independent designer with StormStudios. These photographs were produced as signed, open editions and were only briefly available for sale as they were intended only for the anniversary celebration. Very few of any of these images were produced.
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Pink Floyd, A Momentary Lapse of Reason Album Cover, 1987