Lot 176: Andrew Macpherson (born 1960) Standing on the Shoulders of Giants (Oasis Album Cover)

Andrew Macpherson (born 1960)
Standing on the Shoulders of Giants (Oasis Album Cover), 1999Archival pigment print, signed and numbered '2/15' in pencil in the margin. 16 7/16 x 32 7/8in (41.7 x 83.5cm)

This image was created as the sleeve art for Oasis's album Standing on the Shoulder of Giants, which was released in 2000. The idea was to capture the passage of time in a way that had not been seen or done before. The five boys playing soccer on the nearby rooftop were to represent the members of the band.The work embodies a very complex combination of 30 images, assembled in 1999 and only made possible by the release of Photoshop 5 earlier in the same year. This is also the first known use of what is now called the 'Day to Night' technique. The raw images were taken over 36 hours from the top floor of 500 5th Avenue in New York as the remnants of Hurricane Charley passed by off-shore. The Twin Towers can also be seen just behind the Empire State building.