Bid to own Depeche Mode - A Broken Frame 01 by Brian Griffin.
Artist: Brian Griffin (1948-2024)
Title: Depeche Mode - A Broken Frame 01
Year created: 1982
Medium: Archival Pigment Print
Edition: Open Edition
Height (inches): 30
Width (inches): 30
This piece is unframed.
Description of piece:
This is the album cover picture of “A Broken Frame,” the second album of the band Depeche Mode, shot by the legendary British photographer Brian Griffin. In 1989 the Guardian newspaper proclaimed Brian Griffin to be “The Photographer of the Decade.” Life Magazine used this photograph “A Broken Frame” for its front cover of a special supplement, “The Greatest Photographs of the 1980’s.” In September 1982, the photograph of a woman with her back to the viewer, using a scythe in a corn field under a dramatic sky, was shot by Brian Griffin, who had a model, dressed as a Russian peasant, pose in a cornfield near Duxford RAF Museum in Cambridge, shortly before the record's release. “It was a dark rainy day, but around mid-day the rain stopped and the clouds opened”. For a decade between the late 1970s through the 1980s, Brian was a highly sought-after photographer for record labels, band managers and artists themselves, all scrambling to book him to produce eye-catching album covers, single bags and publicity shots. Brian Griffin invented technical tricks to turn 80s pop into an edgy visual wonderland. Many of his images are rare vintage prints, captured prior to the digital age of photography when technical proficiency and ingenuity was a must. The image was produced under license agreement on fine art archival pigment paper and comes with an authorized Certificate of Authenticity, with embossed artist seal. The prints is professionally packaged and shipped in sturdy tubes.
Artist bio:
Brian Griffin is considered “The Photographer of the Decade” 1980-1990 by London’s Guardian newspaper and as one of the most eminent British photographers of the seventies and eighties. “Life” magazine’s supplement, “The Greatest Photographs of the 80’s,” illustrated this photograph “A Broken Frame,” on its cover. The image was acclaimed as the photograph of the decade 1980-1990. Griffin was chosen by George Lucas as one of three photographers to shoot the “Star Wars” characters at Lucas Studios, London for the 1983 Star Wars movie, “Return of the Jedi.” Brian was a highly sought-after photographer by band managers and artists themselves, scrambling to book him to produce eye-catching album covers and publicity shots. Griffin invented technical tricks to turn 80’s pop into an edgy visual wonderland. Many of his images are rare vintage prints captured prior to the digital age of photography when technical proficiency and ingenuity was a must. Griffin has won many awards in his carrier as a photographer, including in 2013, the “Centenary Medal” from the Royal Photographic Society, in recognition of a lifetime achievement in photography. Brian Griffin’s photographs are held in the permanent collections of major art institutions including the Victoria & Albert Museum, London; the Arts Council of Great Britain, London; the British Council, London; the National Portrait Gallery, London; the Museum Folkwang, Essen; the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery; the Art Museum Reykjavik, Iceland; the Mast Foundation, Bologna; and the Museu da Imagem, Braga, Portugal.