Tony May. - Pink Floyd Back Catalogue (1997) - 2000s

Author: Tony May.
Title: Pink Floyd Back Catalogue (1997)
Print size: 61 x 91 cm.
Offset print made on semigloss 180g. Displays a vivid and sharp image quality.
Copyright: 2002, Pink Floyd Music 1987. Ltd. Under license to G.E.I. Printed in U.K.
New to frame.
Shipping in a rigid tube via certified express mail.
It is possible to collect more than one object, from the same auction, in the same shipment.

portrait Pyramid ©2002 poster is:
- a legitimate early licensed reprint
- earlier and better than most people’s wide versions
- clearly post-original, but still respectable Floyd ephemera

This classic picture commissioned by EMI in 1997, to cleverly advertise the release of the “back” catalogue of Pink Floyd was taken at a private indoor pool in Putney (London Borough of Wandsworth) by photographer Tony May in 1996. The unknown nude models had the cover art of six Pink Floyd albums painted onto their backs by artist Phyllis Cohen.
The original concept and design of painting the Pink Floyd album covers on the backs of models was conceived by Finlay Cowan who worked closely with long-time Pink Floyd graphic artist Storm Thorgerson.

Albums from left to righ:
- Atom Heart Mother (1970)
- Relics (compilation – 1971)
- Dark Side Of The Moon (1973)
- Wish You Were Here (1975)
- The Wall (1979)
- Animals (1977)

Original issue (late 1990s)

c. 1997–1998

Portrait / vertical (3:4) format

Tied to:

the late-90s catalogue remaster push

EMI / PF Management promotional material

Heavier paper, sharper print

This is the version collectors generally mean when they say “the original Back Catalogue poster”

THIS lot contains the first early 200o's reissues of this poster still with original size and scope, so it is of better value than the widescreen reprints