Annie Lennox Unveils Album Cover-Photo is Self-Portrait; 'BARE' Released on J Records on June 10th.To download high-resolution, print-ready JPEG JPEG in full Joint Photographic Experts Group Standard computer file format for storing graphic images in a compressed form for general use. JPEG images are compressed using a mathematical algorithm. images, click on the thumbnail image above. WARNING: these images are very large (800K+) Click here for caption Entertainment/Photo Editors NOTE TO MEDIA: Multimedia assets available A photo is available at URL URL in full Uniform Resource Locator Address of a resource on the Internet. The resource can be any type of file stored on a server, such as a Web page, a text file, a graphics file, or an application program. : http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/photo.cgi?pw.050703/bb8 NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 7, 2003 The striking album cover for "BARE" and all other related imagery, has been created by Annie Lennox Annie Lennox (born Ann Lennox on 25 December 1954) is a Scottish musician and vocalist. She is both a solo artist and the lead singer of the duo Eurythmics, called "The Greatest White Soul Singer Alive" on the VH1 show 100 Greatest Women of Rock and Roll 1999. herself, working with the graphic artist Allan Martin. "I love the visual aspect of things, and have worked with so many photographers over the years," she says. "Although the results can be stunning, the fact remains that you meet them for the first time, work with them for a day, and are 'done' by them, without any input from yourself apart from your presence and cooperation. I didn't want to be that passive thing any more. I wanted to create all the imagery myself, without any filtering through or interfacing with other people. And it's been so immensely satisfying, all this experimentation. There's been a real sense of freedom." "This is just by means of a small description to illustrate my thoughts and feelings about the particular image I've chosen for the album cover. This album contains songs that are deeply personal and emotional. In a sense I have 'exposed' myself through the work to reveal aspects of an inner world which are fragile...broken through experience, but not entirely smashed. I am not a young artist in their early twenties. I am a mature woman facing up to 'core' issues. I don't want to represent myself visually in some kind of cliched cli·chéd also cliched adj. Having become stale or commonplace through overuse; hackneyed: "In the States, it might seem a little clichéd; in Paris, it seems fresh and original" , airbrushed, saccharine sac·cha·rine adj. Of, relating to, or characteristic of sugar or saccharin; sweet. kind of way. I want to reveal myself as I am. For me this is a powerful and courageous statement. I have never been known to 'toe the safety line,' in terms of how I represent myself. As an artist, I need to be authentic...to take risks...to break the mould when necessary. The 'posture' of the image refers back to the earlier days of Eurythmics eurythmics or eurhythmics (both: y  rĭth`mĭks) with the 'TOUCH' cover, only this time I have now turned to face the audience eye to eye, as it were. I am as 'BARE' as the title suggests, though not entirely exposed. The image is timeless, genderfree, and racially ambiguous. I could be a statue, a ghostly apparition apparition, spiritualistic manifestation of a person or object in which a form not actually present is seen with such intensity that belief in its reality is created. , or an Indian saddhu. The false lashes represent the artifice of 'performance.' The colour has been drained from my mouth (where the words and sounds issue from) to saturate sat·u·ratev. Abbr. sat. 1. To imbue or impregnate thoroughly. 2. To soak, fill, or load to capacity. 3. To cause a substance to unite with the greatest possible amount of another substance. the title with redness (signifying lifeforce and anger). I hope it makes sense to you. Love, Annie." Note: A photo is available at URL: http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/photo.cgi?pw.050703/bb8 |
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