Some others would be: Anna Gaskell, Andreas Gursky, the Ray’s a Laugh stuff from Richard Billingham, Nan Goldin, Alec Soth, Christopher Wray-McCann.
Seeing his work made me want to do photojournalism. I was on the road to some kind of photography-based career before the devil music got to me. You studied photography in school, prior to going full-time with Jimmy Eat World, correct? Who are some of your favorite photographers, or favorite photographs? It’s something you should never take for granted. You are very lucky if a listener can make a connection to your work. Just like any commercial success you achieve is fragile. In Eggleston’s image there’s no reason at all for you to be impressed with whatever achievements those trophies represent. You aren’t ready to present that work to everyone else. You absolutely have to feel that way about your work or you aren’t done. Making something you feel is your best work is your only guaranteed success.
You can be smart about opportunities that may come your way, but your work is the only thing you can really control. What drew you to that image? Was there something about it that you felt connected to the album’s title or themes, or the band’s state of mind at the time?įor me and for us as a group it has always been about balancing pride and perspective. Because we just got a new record deal with a label who seemed to be MUCH more behind what we were doing, Bleed American was the first time we thought we could get away with something more ambitious-as in using someone prominent for imagery. It is not unlike recording music in a band/producer environment. Occasionally they will throw in an idea that sends us back thinking about it all again. We use an outside art director to do the work for delivery to the label. Usually there are a handful that we explore in depth. We have a consensus on the general mood we want to present.
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In general, how does your band decide what images to use for your album covers? What is the process for creating album art? Specifically, how was Eggleston’s untitled work from the Los Alamos series chosen? I got in touch with Jimmy Eat World’s singer/guitarist, Jim Adkins, to ask him about the image and how photography impacts their music. Among them is Jimmy Eat World’s Bleed American, released in 2001, which uses an untitled photo from Eggleston’s Los Alamos series. As we discussed yesterday on Unframed, the current William Eggleston exhibition includes the many album covers which feature Eggleston’s photographs.
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