30 July 2007
Oh my god. I found it I found it!!!
This picture -
which graces the cover of Beirut's album Gulag Orkestar struck me from the first moment I laid eyes on it. And I always had the intention of buying the LP and framing it up in my room.
And now, the mystery has been unraveled...
The man is Russian photographer, Sergey Chilikov.
Here are some of his other equally captivating shots:
This picture -
which graces the cover of Beirut's album Gulag Orkestar struck me from the first moment I laid eyes on it. And I always had the intention of buying the LP and framing it up in my room.
Its covers are fuzzy pictures of two girls posing, on a hot, dusty afternoon, with a rusty car with Russian plates. They look like stills from a reel of Super-8 shot with hand-held camera. They look as you imagine memory would if you freeze-framed it. In the notes, Cordon says he found them ripped from a book in a library, that he has been unable to identify them, and if anyone recognises them or the photographer, to get in touch.And apparantly that picture had an even bigger impact on Beirut aka Zach Corden because -
(Source)
"I found that photo, and I took it home with me," Zach told Pitchfork recently. "It was hanging on the wall the entire time [I wrote and recorded Gulag], and I always kind of felt like, 'It's got to sound like that. It's got to sound the way that looks.'"I wanted so bad to find out who shot it.
(Source)
And now, the mystery has been unraveled...
The man is Russian photographer, Sergey Chilikov.
Here are some of his other equally captivating shots:
Here's more at where they came from.
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