Learned today that Grace Jones’ impossible/clearly wonderful pose on the cover of 1985’s “Island Life” was originally printed in a 1977 issue of New York magazine, for which Jean-Paul Goude shot her over & over again before manually cut-and-pasting parts of them together to create the finished art.

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  1. I suspect I’m the last one on the block to hear this, but at least I get to finally appreciate how brilliantly Goude created the photo-montage without access to any kind of computer tech at all.

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