Vinyl and the art of photography

Fotocolectania hosts until March 2018 the exhibition of "Total Records".

The cover of Abbey Road, the last album of the Beatles, turned this street into a place of pilgrimage. With John Lennon at the helm, the quartet had fun walking the zebra crossing towards his recording studio. This historical image is part of the exhibition «Total Records. Vinyl and photography », which occupies the new headquarters of Fotocolectania until March 2018.

The Rolling Stones have their own mural where some of their covers are displayed by the photographer David Beiley, with whom they had a great friendship. "We adapted the exhibition to each place and in Barcelona we included Spanish covers of the Fotocoletania archive," says Serge Vincendet, co-curator and director of the Encuentros de Arlés.

The tour begins with photos made specifically for the covers and continues with photos that already existed and that became ported like Tom Waits's "RainDogs" signed by Anders Petersen. Do not miss artists like Richard Avedon who made more than a hundred covers or Andy Warhol who triumphed with the most famous banana in the world that he drew for the Velvet Underground. In the case of Avedon, who started working in the world of fashion, his first cover includes a model in a locomotive.

If we ask the curators to choose a cover, Antoine de Beaupré chooses one from Miles Davis, "a pure photograph without letters", and Serge Vincendent gets the Warhol banana. The show started in 2015 in Arles, traveled to Budapest, Berlin and is waiting to fly to Japan. Success is guaranteed wherever you go. Music and arts are good companions.