◇ After
London Calling · The Clash · CBS (photo Pennie Smith, design Ray Lowry), 1979
Square format, grainy black and white. A figure bent forward brings an instrument down on the boards, cables and amp stack behind. Pink type down the left edge, green along the bottom, borrowed in turn from Presley's first album.
“After” is the old gallery word for a work made in open conversation with another. It is a lineage, not a shortcut.
◇ Piece Room
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