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The 25 most iconic album covers of all time udiscover. Populate your music collection with the right album cd cover. His longest and most prolific working relationship was with norman granz, who showcased martin s art through the clef, norgran, and verve record labels. From my research on the net, it appears that dsm went on to create approximately 400 album covers. David stone martin created fabulous graphics on over 400 album covers, many for the jazz giants of the century.
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He was greatly influenced by the line art of ben shahn. Dsm was one of the most influential artists of the 20th century. Portal about top country music discographies, albums, covers, songs, lyrics and more. Pages in category albums with cover art by david stone martin the following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 total. David fiuczynski biography david fuze fiuczynski is a jazz rock fusion artist born in the united states, but raised in germany.
It is his album cover design for women blues in the series of. Martin was born in chicago and studied at the school of the art institute of chicago. Oct 29, 20 illustrator david stone martin 19 1992 was one of the most prolific and influential graphic designers of the postwar era, creating over 400 album covers. The book features hundreds of covers, all in color.
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