Álbuns Posters: from Illmatic to Un Verano Sin Ti

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• ◆The Beatles' Abbey Road cover was shot by Iain Macmillan on 8 August 1969; he took six frames from a stepladder in about ten minutes while a policeman held up the traffic, and Paul McCartney later chose the fifth frame.
• ◆Nirvana's Nevermind, released in 1991, put a four-month-old baby, Spencer Elden, underwater in a pool; the shoot was handled by underwater photographer Kirk Weddle.
• ◆Nas' Illmatic, released on 19 April 1994, superimposed a photograph of a seven-year-old Nas over the Queensbridge housing projects; the sleeve was designed by Aimee Macauley with photography by Danny Clinch.
• ◆Kanye West commissioned painter George Condo for My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy in 2010; the original painted cover was considered so provocative that some retail chains refused to stock it.
• ◆Kendrick Lamar's To Pimp a Butterfly (2015) shows a black-and-white photograph of friends from his Compton childhood celebrating on the White House lawn, taken by French photographer Denis Rouvre.
• ◆Travis Scott's Astroworld cover was shot by photographer David LaChapelle in 2018 and built a giant golden inflatable bust of Scott's head into a recreation of a defunct Texas amusement park.
• ◆Fleetwood Mac's Rumours (1977) was photographed by Herbert Worthington and placed only Mick Fleetwood and Stevie Nicks on the front while every relationship in the band was collapsing.
• ◆Radiohead's OK Computer sleeve (1997) was collaged by Stanley Donwood and Thom Yorke from found images, including old textbooks and aeroplane emergency cards, on a newly bought Mac.
• ◆Frank Ocean's Blond cover (2016), showing him green-haired under a shower, was photographed by artist Wolfgang Tillmans and was never originally intended to be an album cover.
• ◆Bad Bunny's Un Verano Sin Ti, released in May 2022, became the first all-Spanish-language album nominated for the Grammy Album of the Year and topped the Billboard 200 year-end chart.
• ◆N.W.A's Straight Outta Compton (1988) framed the group in a low-angle street shot that became one of the most imitated compositions in rap photography.
• ◆Daft Punk's Random Access Memories (2013) centred its cover on the duo's mirror-visored chrome helmets, a visual signature the pair kept for their entire career.