Dead person on cover of album, i have a crush on you

http://www.dementlieu.com/users/obik/bigblack/discog/images/headache13.jpg

<img src="http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:8JEyNeN31FX0hM:http://audiostereo.lukarnet.com/gfx/370000/377483_1.jpg";>

UH http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:8JEyNeN31FX0hM:http://audiostereo.lukarnet.com/gfx/370000/377483_1.jpg

http://dmtlsmerzbau.files.wordpress.com/2007/06/weegee_hells_kitchen.jpg

http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/pic/LPG/51402~Rage-Against-The-Machine-Burning-Monk-Posters.jpg

I'm not sure if the guy in the Naked City cover is really dead.
He could be just really, really hurt.

The second cover that was posted, though...yeah...definitely.

http://www.rosaselvaggia.com/Flowers.jpg

Don't know her respiratory status, but I've had a crush on the Flowers of Romance girl for 20 years. Who is she anyways?

http://ak.buy.com/db_assets/large_images/373/60163373.jpg

http://www.disco-robertwyatt.com/images/with_friends/images/madcap_laughs_big.jpg

http://www.45-rpm.org.uk/dird/BE12572.jpg

Who is she anyways?

The cover photograph is of the band's videographer, Jeanette Lee.

thread = bummerz

http://www.zumablog.com/images/120/iron%20maiden%20sanctuary.jpg

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000002UDG.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

He's not dead!

I had to think about Macca for a second.

http://img1.nnm.ru/imagez/gallery/7/9/3/3/a/7933ab2076121abd50f4b5607c7e802e_full.jpg

Jeanette Lee isn't dead either!

http://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h210/HellboundAlleee/paulisdeadbatman.jpg

http://fredfred.net/skriker/images/fred/music/antony_and_the_johnsons/iamabirdnow.jpg

lol

Dead dead. Mayhem - Dawn of Black Hearts to thread.

http://s7.directupload.net/images/110331/8yuzblwh.jpg
(died at the moment)

is that a famous photo? I have no idea who/what it is, but I feel like I should recognize it.

i don't know. from time to time i'm trying to find out more about this pic.
it always ends here:

In a french newspaper, in 1981, Chris explained his choice for the pacific street cover. The photograph who take the soldier's picture was shooted an died at the moment he takes the picture:

(we can't ask Chris McCaffery anymore, he died in 1986)

ok, I found it :)

http://i56.tinypic.com/2enophx.jpg

(right click to view in huuuge size)

it was taken by Mario De Biasi in 1956, and it seems that he's still alive:

Mario De Biasi was born in Belluno in 1923 but is Milanese by adoption. In 1948 he presented his first one-man show. In 1953 he turned professional, working for "Epoca", and over thirty years created hundreds of covers and countless reportages worldwide for the magazine. He has photographed revolutions and famous figures, unknown lands, volcanoes in eruption and white expanses of snow at the Pole with temperatures reaching minus sixty five degrees. Bruno Munari wrote of him: "The camera has become part of his anatomy, like his nose or eyes." For Indena he created in 2004 the photographic book "Fragments of Nature".

the title of it is "Epoca, Budapest 1956" ("epoca" is Italian for "age"). I can't find any specific information about it, although it was almost certainly taken during the 1956 Revolution against the Communist regime.

ah, there's a little context here, although the text is in Italian.

Working for Epoca (a weekly magazine published by Enzo Biagi) between October 23 and 24, 1956, De Biasi stood for hours under the fire of the revolutionaries, documenting the entry of Soviet tanks, the massacres, the anger, the dead who were hanged in the streets, and the suffering of the inhabitants. The result of this short but intense stay are raw images and rhetoric, which bear witness to the events that set off the Hungarian capital in October-November of that year.

the other photos on the page I linked to suggest that De Biasi and the people in the photo were witnessing an execution (or the aftermath of an execution) at the time the photo was taken. so whoever made that message board post got the facts a little mixed up, I assume.

ah, so it was the band that got the facts wrong, according to this interview from 1984 (the quote is from Mike Head):

I came across the picture when I was going through one of those professional photographers' annuals. It was taken during the Hungarian uprising and the soldier is looking really weird because just as he was taking the picture, the photographer was killed by a stray bullet. Incredible.

I guess that means the photographer didn't get acknowledged for the use of the photo (:-/) unless Mike was lying to make the story more interesting.

ok, that's the end of my sleuthing for the night.

http://www.coverbrowser.com/image/bestselling-music-2006/3365-1.jpg

whoa, awesome job!
Thanks a lot for clearing things up. you are right, there is no credit at all for the photo on this album.
so it seems like the Fountains sexed things up...
not that i'm disappointed or st, i hope the guy on the picture is still alive and well :)