The Rolling Stones Exile On Main Street Art Print by John Van Hamersveld

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This art print lithograph was produced in 1993 by MUSICOM. An edition of 5000 , art by John Van Hamersveld. Comes with COA. Numbered by hand in pencil. Band signatures are printed not hand signed.
Exile on Main St.
is a
studio album
by English
rock
band
the Rolling Stones
. It was first released as the band's first
double album
on 12 May 1972 by
Rolling Stones Records
and was the band's tenth studio album released in the United Kingdom, as well as their twelfth American album. Recording for the album began in 1969 in England during sessions for
Sticky Fingers
and continued in the summer of 1971 at a rented villa in the
South of France
named
Nellcôte
while the band lived abroad as
tax exiles
. A collage of various images, the album's artwork, according to frontman
Mick Jagger
, reflects the Rolling Stones as "runaway outlaws using the
blues
as its weapon against the world", showcasing "feeling of joyful isolation, grinning in the face of a scary and unknown future".
For
Exile on Main St.
, Mick Jagger wanted an album cover that reflected the band as "runaway outlaws using the blues as its weapon against the world", showcasing "feeling of joyful isolation, grinning in the face of a scary and unknown future".
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As the band finished the album in Los Angeles, they approached designer John Van Hamersveld and his photographer partner
Norman Seeff
, and also invited documentary photographer
Robert Frank
. The same day Seeff photographed the Stones at their
Bel Air
mansion, Frank took Jagger for photographs at
Los Angeles' Main Street
. The location was the 500 block near the Leonide Hotel. At the time there was a pawnshop, a shoeshine business and a pornographic theatre (The Galway Theatre) at the location. Still, Van Hamersveld and Jagger chose the cover image from an already existing Frank photograph, an outtake from his seminal 1958 book
The Americans
.
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Named "Tattoo Parlor" but possibly taken from Hubert's
Dime museum
in New York City, the image is a collage of
circus
performers and
freaks
,
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such as "Three Ball Charlie", a 1930s sideshow performer from
Humboldt, Nebraska
who holds three balls (a tennis ball, a golf ball, and a "5" billiard ball) in his mouth;
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Joe "The Human Corkscrew" Allen, pictured in a postcard-style advertisement, a contortionist with the ability to wiggle and twist through a 13.5-inch (34 cm) hoop;
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and Hezekiah Trambles, "The Congo Jungle Freak", a man who dressed as an African savage, in a picture taken by the then recently deceased
Diane Arbus
.
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The Seeff pictures were repurposed as 12 perforated postcards inside the sleeve, while Frank's Main Street photographs were used in the
gatefold
and back cover collage made by Van Hamersveld, which features other pictures Frank took of the band and their crew—including their assistant Chris O'Dell, a former acquaintance of Van Hamersveld who brought him to the Stones—and other
The Americans
outtakes.
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