Pink Floyd: The Dark Side Of The Moon: The Official 50th Anniversary Photobook

by Pink Floyd, Jill Furmanovsky (Contribution by), Aubrey Powell (Contribution by)

Overview

The official photobook commemorating the 50th anniversary of The Dark Side Of The Moon.

March 2023 marks fifty years since the release of Pink Floyd's classic album The Dark Side Of The Moon. Designed by Pentagram to high specifications, this celebratory publication brims with rare and unseen photographs and reveals the visual conception of the original iconic album artwork. It will be a covetable package for the legions of Floyd fans out there—new and old. 

• Presents rare and unseen backstage and onstage photography of the band during the album tours of 1972 to 1975.
• 129 candid photographs by Storm Thorgerson, Jill Furmanovsky, Aubrey Powell, and Peter Christopherson document the soundchecks, the shows, and the after shows.
• A review of the October 1972 Wembley gig, originally published in Melody Maker, provides insight into one of the Floyd's most celebrated performances.
• Reveals the visual conception of the iconic album artwork.
• Includes a complete listing of the tour dates.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780500025987
Publisher:	Thames & Hudson
Publication date:	03/24/2023
Pages:	160
Product dimensions:	12.30(w) x 12.10(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Jill Furmanovsky has photographed legendary rock musicians for more than 50 years, including Pink Floyd, Bob Dylan, Blondie, The Clash, The Ramones, The Pretenders, Joy Division, Leonard Cohen, Amy Winehouse, and Oasis. In 2024 she received a Lifetime Achievement award from Amateur Photography magazine; the Legend of the Year award from So.Co for Image of Music Awards; and the Abbey Road ICON award.


Aubrey "Po" Powell co-founded the design agency Hipgnosis with Storm Thorgerson in 1968, creating over the next 15 years some of the most iconic record covers for artists such as Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Paul McCartney and Genesis. Powell is currently art director for Pink Floyd, responsible for designing and curating the record-breaking exhibition "Pink Floyd: Their Mortal Remains," which premiered for five months in 2017 at the V&A in London.

Editorial Reviews

"Another must-have item that comes in the box set but that can be purchased separately is the companion Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon 50th Anniversary book. The package is a beautiful, album-sized hardcover book, with a dust-jacket, published by one of the premier publishers of bespoke coffee-table books, Thames & Hudson.

The book is primarily comprised of the intimate, black & white photographs by Jill Furmanovsky of the group on tour in 1972, with the entire book designed by the esteemed Hipgnosis design team of Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey “Po” Powell. Almost all the photos are of the band before, during and after concerts from the tour, with many family, friends and their team also included. There are a tour itinerary, newspaper clippings, and a replication of the original album design and poster."

The Vinyl District

"Devoted, across 160 LP-sized pages, to the black and white photography of one of Floyd’s finest-ever chroniclers, Jill Furmanovsky...and further enlivened with posters, reviews and the relevant corners of the Hipgnosis artistic team’s archive, the book captures the band both onstage and off... The photos are arranged in such a way that they could almost be a documentary... Shots of the audience are especially revealing — have you ever seen a crowd so rapt? They could almost be attending a lecture, so focussed are they all that is unfolding around them."

After 50 years — Back on the 'Dark Side of the Moon' - Goldmine - Dave Thompson