Art porn: Creating a soundtrack to your life
It started with one Led Zeppelin record in 2010. Since then, German photographer Kai Schafer has set out to photograph iconic vinyls on classic turntables and in doing so, allowing people to acknowledge their personal history. The series is called World Records.
From his site:
The great albums in music history highlighted: on record players that partly became legendary too.
worldrecords is meant to be a tribute to analog acoustic art, a homage to the warmest, perhaps most sensitive type of sound carrier. In a way – and that makes the photo series so special – it is also a private time machine to the spectator: music as an impulse to remember bits and pieces of one's personal history, a release of former thoughts and feelings. The soundtrack of your life.
From a formal point of view, the precise approach down to the last detail finds its ideal expression in large format. Each groove, each label notice, each tone arm component is oversized and thus nearly tangible. The special light KAI has developed for worldrecords contributes a great deal to make these effects real.
The photo series the artist started with early in 2010 today includes around 100 pictures. The list "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time" in the "Rolling Stone Magazine" helped choosing the most adequate titles.
