If you've ever looked at an album cover or music poster and thought: "Wow!", there's a good chance the British photographer Andy Earl was involved. Across four decades, he has created more than 400 album covers and countless portraits of artists who shaped an era. Johnny Cash, Pink Floyd, Prince, Madonna, Robbie Williams: the list reads like a history of classic pop and rock.
Now, a new UK exhibition at TheGallery, Arts University Bournemouth, highlights how Earl didn’t just shoot musicians; he made audiences see them differently.
