The form - a basic 12" x 12" framework - lent itself to as much detail as the artist cared to put in or to leave out, to instant impact, to portability, to duplication or triplication via the gatefold format, and presented itself as an artefact as solid as the record it contained. There is good, bad and ugly (sexism, underage person(s)) covers, though that might sometimes depend on the reader's taste. Record Covers es un libro de 1996 escrito por Michael Ochs, un archivista musical, disc jockey, periodista y ex ejecutivo de Atlantic Records. All image and audio content is used by permission of the copyright holders or their agents, and/or according to fair dealing as per the UK Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. Record Covers’ (2002) by Michael Ochs – is essentially an interesting photo collection of album covers throughout the decades – but ultimately this amounts to nothing more than a vanity project for its author/curator Michael Ochs.

Michael Ochs has been an obsessive music since the 1950 and this book provides a sampling of the 100,000 or so albums that he owns. El libro está dividido en décadas, con cada década presentando una selección de 100 portadas de álbumes. The footprint is smaller than A4 but it made it easier for me to hold and so I'm more than happy with the format.

This edition of Record Covers presents a selection of the best rock album covers of the 60s to 90s from music archivist, disc jockey, journalist, and former record-publicity executive Michael Ochs's enormous private collection. This special edition of Record Covers presents a selection of the best 60s to 90s rock album covers from music archivist, disc jockey, journalist, and ex-record publicity executive Michael Ochs's enormous private collection. Even thought this book has little text, just looking at covers your brain starts to develop context: American propaganda, hippie movement, gender issues, racial context and you can see that the records shown here say a lot about the collector who owns them. Sometimes there's a further comment added (these and the introduction are also in German and French).

A fascinating survey of cover art (TASCHEN's 25th anniversary special edition), record covers are a sign of our life and times. El libro también incluye una introducción del propio Ochs, que proporciona una visión general de la historia de las portadas de álbumes de rock. Although each section here is divided by decade – Ochs makes some attempt to group album covers together based on similar image or artwork (often very tenuous) with varying degrees of success and to what purpose is unclear?

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They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. This gives the advantage of enabling one to see correspondences, similarities, visual echoes between individual designs that can be fruitfully mined for their contemporary social and psychological significance.Here and there appears some that have some kind of 'promo copy' sticker in them, a few have a corner clipped or pierced. For someone who was in the music and record business from mid-1960s to mid-1980s it was a waltz down memory lane.