Friday, January 2, 2009

One of Island Life's mysteries

One of my favorite album covers is the one for Grace Jones' "Island Life". The picture for it is this iconic one:



The picture is by Jean-Paul Goude, who saw Grace as his muse, and i always thought it was one of those bizare things Grace could do, assume that position; no wonder she was his muse. But it turns out even for Grace this position is pretty impossible, and it is some clever pasting by the artist more than impossible feats by the performer:



(source: http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/arts/2005/12/22/grace3.jpg )

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