Album cover maestro Anton Corbijn highlights the art mavericks Hipgnosis.
If you were going to ask any filmmaker to create a documentary about arguably the greatest album art creators ever, then the only suitable contender is the other name often raised as the greatest album cover creator. Thus, Anton Corbijn has directedOn paper, it's the perfect combination. Corbijn was a prime visualist of the eighties, the second wave of great album art and of bands truly integrating their music into a broader artistic vibe.
That on-paper perfection of director and subject makes it to the screen in what is both a compliment and a rebuttal to the 2011 SXSW selection,.
"There was genius in there," as longtime friend/sometimes infuriated client Dave Gilmour explains,"but there were times when they weren't that professional." As Corbijn also explores, the core duo were often in conflict, with Powell as the photographer/businessman/occasional crook and Thorgerson as the ideas man who was always pushing artistic boundaries.
Corbijn manages to capture their you-know-it-when-you-see-it Hipgnosis style through his own crystalline lens, even in his archival selections. His own experiences in the field subtly inform the documentary's idea of covers as part publicity and part working-class art gallery.
That perfect pairing of Corbijn and Hipgnosis also provides a deeply satisfying conclusion that makes sense of the director's decision to cut away Powell and Thorgerson's pre-Hipgnosis life. Their decline and the eventual disbanding of the company in 1983 was heralded by the aesthetic changes to the visual side of music culture - many of them wrought by Corbijn and his peers.
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