Collapsing Bulkheads: the Covers of Crash
By Rick Poynor • Mar 12th, 2007 •
Category: Ballardosphere, David Cronenberg, William Burroughs, advertising, fashion, features, visual art
by Rick Poynor
‘Missing the point’: (detail, Livre de Poche edition, 1973; design: Atelier Pascal Vercken).
NOTE: This is an edited version of an essay published in Designing Pornotopia: Travels in Visual Culture by Rick Poynor, Laurence King Publishing, 2006. First published in Eye no. 52, Summer 2004. Reproduced with permission.
J. G. BALLARD’S Crash tests the [...]
