Record sleeve
Pennie Smith (b.1949)
Category
Musical instruments, devices and recordings
Date
c. 1979 - 7 Sep 1979
Materials
Cardboard record sleeve
Measurements
312 x 312 mm
Collection
Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 672662.2
Summary
A cardboard sleeve for a vinyl record, the album Cut by The Slits. The sleeve was designed by Bloomfield/Travis using photographs taken by Pennie Smith. The front cover of the sleeve features a colour photograph of the three female members of the band in the centre of a dark purple background (from left to right: Ariana Forster (Ari Up), Viv Albertine and Tessa Pollitt). The women are wearing loin cloth style skirts and are naked from the waist up, their bodies smeared in mud. They are standing in front of the white wall of a building that has rose bushes and vegetation around it. The bands name is printed in black immediately above the top left corner of the photograph and the album title is printed, also in black in the top right corner. The rear of the sleeve has a colour photograph of the three female band members faces in the middle of a bush (from left to right: Forster, Pollitt and Albertine). The photograph is in the centre of a red background with the song titles on each side of the record printed in black at the top right corner. There is an Island Records logo in the centre at the bottom of the rear of the sleeve.
Provenance
Cardboard sleeve for a vinyl record, the album Cut recorded by The Slits and released by Island Records on 7th September 1979. Designed by Bloomfield/Travis with photographs by Pennie Smith. Purchased by the National Trust Museum of Childhood via Discogs circa March 2020 as part of the Collecting Cultures Exploring Childhoods project.
Makers and roles
Pennie Smith (b.1949), photographer Island Records, record label