CD album art research #1

This is the album art for "The Black Keys" album "the big come up". It features the two members of the band on the front of the cover, in a smaller frame, with the band's name above and the album title below. The band members are shown in two types of shots, the one to the left in an extreme close up, the other in a close up. Also the album art is in black and white, giving it a daunting and simplistic appearance, which is effective in the sense that it could potentially give the audience an insight to the bands genre. The low and high key contrasts also provide visual elements which attract the audience, and may have been intentially chosen as a typical reference to the band, as it is a direct link to the band's name "the Black Keys".

I am looking to take inspiration from this album art, as I am wanting to feature the band members of Cohesion on my own work. Plus I am interested by the use of the black and white effect and may decide to use this effect as well.