![]() ![]() We’re so reliant on things we think we have control of, but our control is akin to the strings on a marionette. Because if things like the cow, or oil, or clean water were to disappear, our society would collapse. And that it’s the cow that is truly the master, or say the mother, to our world. Almost like all of human society is based around consuming resources, and the genetically altered cow is a symbol for those resources that we consume at alarming rates and using immoral tactics to obtain them. Very few of any of these images were produced.But if I’m ever listening to the title track at night, in the midst of the Mother Fore choir section, looking at that cow gives me this dark tingly feeling. These photographs were produced as signed, open editions and were only briefly available for sale as they were intended only for the anniversary celebration. 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. The cow was, in fact, more eye-catching than I had ever dared imagine it was so different because it was so normal: so ordinary it stood out a mile." - Storm Thorgerson Not shocking, not mind altering, just unexpected. "I wanted to design a non-cover, something that was not like other covers, particularly not like other rock or psychedelic covers – something that one would simply not expect. The back cover of Pink Floyd's fourth studio album, 1970's Atom Heart Mother, recorded at Abbey Road Studios. ![]()
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