Album Cover Research

I have chosen to look at pink floyd's 'dark side of the moon' in order to analyse the conventions of album covers.

This album cover achieved huge commercial success. However it is very ambiguous as to the genre of music, it could really be anything .

This assumed knowledge creates a powerful feel to the image. In addition the lack of information makes it look more like a piece of art than an album cover which undoubtedly contributed to it's iconic status.