Pink Floyd
· 1975
The famous burning handshake photo on the cover of Wish You Were Here was photographed at Warner Bros Studios in Burbank in 1975. Hipgnosis, the design duo of Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey Powell, hired two stuntmen to perform the actual handshake while one of them was set on fire. An interesting fact is that the photo was inverted, as before, the fire was against the wind and burned the mustache of one of the stuntmen. He moved to the left and the photo was inverted.
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