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The cover shots for This Is The Ice Age were taken from
the front window of the third floor apartment at 470 Bloor
Street West, where Mark Gane was living in 1981.
"The peculiar markings on the wall across the street
attracted my attention and it was just intuition that suggested
that this might make a suitable image to represent the modern,
urban Ice Age.", recounts Mark. "There was something
cold and wintery about the white markings that made the distant
bank tower even more empty and forlorn, which was how I felt
at the time of writing many of those songs."
"I set my camera up on a tripod with a 200mm telephoto
lens and shot several rolls of film over a period of days
and nights at different times, spending a lot of time deciding
on the two final images and their placement on the cover.
As it turned out, the front cover is dusk, the back is dawn.
Long after moving out of that apartment, I would be able to
look up while walking along Bloor Street and still get a glimpse
of that wierd white shape until one day, the wall was repaired
and the shape disappeared."
When Women Around The World At Work b/w 22 In Cincinnati was
released as a single in the U.K.in 1981,
(Dindisc/Virgin DIN 34), 9 versions of the same view taken
at different times of the day/night were used on the picture
sleeve. |
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