BLIND FAITH Art Lithograph Print Rare Artist Signed Edition #161/200

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Produced in 1990 by Record Art and later distributed by MUSICOM. This is the rare artist edition of 200, hand signed in pencil by graphic artist and photographer Bob Seidemann. Numbered 161/200 in pencil. Comes with our COA and money back guarantee of authenticity.
The cover was a photo by Bob Seidemann of a topless 11 year old girl, Mariora Goschen,[4] holding a silver painted model of an aircraft sculpted for the album shoot by Mick Milligan.[5] The cover was considered controversial, with some seeing the silver aircraft as potentially phallic.[6][7] The American record company issued it with an alternative cover showing a photograph of the band on the front as well as the original cover.
The cover art was created by photographer Bob Seidemann, a friend and former flatmate of Clapton's who is primarily known for his photos of Janis Joplin and the Grateful Dead. In the mid-1990s, in an advertising circular intended to help sell lithographic reprints of the famous album cover, he explained his thinking behind the image.
I could not get my hands on the image until out of the mist a concept began to emerge. To symbolize the achievement of human creativity and its expression through technology a spaceship was the material object. To carry this new spore into the universe, innocence would be the ideal bearer, a young girl, a girl as young as Shakespeare's Juliet. The spaceship would be the fruit of the tree of knowledge and the girl, the fruit of the tree of life. The spaceship could be made by Mick Milligan, a jeweller at the Royal College of Art. The girl was another matter. If she were too old it would be cheesecake, too young and it would be nothing. The beginning of the transition from girl to woman, that is what I was after. That temporal point, that singular flare of radiant innocence. Where is that girl?[8]
Seidemann wrote that he approached a girl reported to be 14 years old on the London Underground about modelling for the cover, and eventually met with her parents, but that she proved too old for the effect he wanted. Instead, the model he used was her younger sister Mariora Goschen, who was reported to be 11 years old.[4] Mariora initially requested a horse as a fee but was instead paid £40.[4][9]
The image, titled "Blind Faith" by Seidemann, became the inspiration for the name of the band itself, which had been unnamed when the artwork was commissioned. According to Seidemann: "It was Eric who elected to not print the name of the band on the cover. The name was instead printed on the wrapper, when the wrapper came off, so did the type." This had been done previously for several other albums.