Great Album Covers - Rage Against The Machine

Photojournalism and Blink Art:
“Rage Against the Machine,”
Photo by Malcolm Browne, 1992.

Cheap thrills or political statement? Rage Against the Machine made a whole bunch of statements with its debut record cover. The photo of a Vietnamese Buddhist monk torching himself shocks and rivets—this is album art as car crash. The 1963 photo by Associated Press correspondent Malcolm Browne received the World Press Photo of the Year award. The cover demands attention, screams political awareness, then haunts you after you turn away.

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