Behind the Covers

fisheye

1 cover story in our archive

Behind the Covers' archive includes 1 album cover documented under the "fisheye" design theme, all from the 1960s. The cover sits within the rock tradition and features work by The Jimi Hendrix Experience. Each entry below includes the cover artwork, the designers and photographers behind it, and a short story about the visual choices that defined the release.

Are You Experienced by The Jimi Hendrix Experience — album cover art

Are You Experienced by The Jimi Hendrix Experience (1967)

Karl Ferris pioneered the use of infrared film for album art, creating an otherworldly image where the band appears in unnatural purple, orange, and green hues through a fisheye lens — as if Hendrix had literally arrived from another dimension.

Label
Track / Reprise
Photographer
Karl Ferris
Genre
Rock
Decade
1960s
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