Blue by Joni Mitchell (1971)
The close-up of Mitchell's face bathed in monochromatic blue transforms a portrait into an emotional statement — her sadness and longing literally coloring everything. She described making the album as feeling 'like a cellophane wrapper on a cigarette pack.'
- Label
- Reprise
- Photographer
- Tim Considine
- Genre
- Folk, Pop
- Decade
- 1970s