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Aug 27, 2020 · The cover design for Island Life is more than just that striking arabesque on the cover. The gatefold sleeve features visual highlights from their collaborations over the years, a celebration of black power and beauty, with an erotic intimacy that could only really be conceived by lovers.
Aug 16, 2021 · The cover featuring the oiled Goddess in a statuesque pose was created by the illustrator, photographer and graphic designer Jean-Paul Goude. The construction of the composition would set off a partnership that went well beyond the reach of a creative collaboration.
In what has become an iconic portrait, Goude compiled several separate snaps of Jones and constructed this lissom and elegant, if anatomically dubious, pose, all before Photoshop existed. ‘Unless you are extraordinarily supple, you cannot do this arabesque,’ Goude has said.
In "Island Life," a photo which he created for cover for Grace Jones's album of the same name, Goude photographed her in several different positions, then overlaid the images to elongate the neck, and legs, and to display her torso completely turned forward.
Sep 14, 2018 · Goude’s art and image making for Jones, after all, involved a stunning measure of objectification, a manipulation or magnification of her proportions to arrive at a creature that’s beyond human. It is a through line across his work—not just in his images of the singer, but broadly, of black woman.
Jun 27, 2018 · By 1985, the intimate relationship between Jones and Goude was history, but visually the best was yet to come. The cover image that Goude photographed and repurposed by hand for Slave To The Rhythm utilised a style that he was fond of during this period.
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Goude’s book Jungle Fever (1983), a controversial autobiographical retrospective documenting his obsession with black culture, immortalized his formidable ex‐muse, Grace Jones. 2,3 Goude’s sketches of Jones; extraordinarily, she epitomized drawings of the daydream. 4 Goude designed the artwork for Jones’ single ‘My Jamaican Guy ...
