Wish You Were Here ~ Pink Floyd

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Average dynamic range : 13

00:00 Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts I–V)
13:33 Welcome to the Machine
21:08 Have A Cigar
26:43 Wish You Were Here
31:57 Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts VI–IX)

Photograph by Storm Thorgerson
This photograph was featured on the inside sleeve of Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here album cover. The overarching concept of this album cover's design was to capture the sense of absence, loss, and empty gestures that were reflected in much of the music on the record.
From the iconic front cover image of the two businessmen shaking hands while one is literally being burned in the deal, to the Magritte-inspired faceless record salesmen in the desert, and this impossibly still diver plunging into the iconic Mono Lake, each artwork used in this design is an exceptional example of Hipgnosis's highly refined image-making skills.
In their classic approach, Hipgnosis did everything they could "for real" In order to achieve the surreal effects in their imagery. In this case they had a diver hold his pose underwater for over two minutes to allow the ripples to dissipate on the lake's surface.
Located in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California, Mono Lake is an ancient saline lake lined with limestone formations - called tufa towers - that give it this iconic appearance.
Image Courtesy of Pink Floyd. Photography by Hipgnosis.