12"x12" Vintage 50s Italian Meets American Rock and Roll Print - 45RPM Cover Art - Milan Italian Photographer / Graphic Artist Gian Greguoli (Copy)

Treasures from THE MUSIC COLLECTION at The Grand Review.  Print size 18 x 18, works with an 18 x 18 frame, or custom framed as you see fit.  

We are now offering several of our prints that started out as 24 x 24 inches square in three sizes. 24 x 24, 18 x 18 and 12 x 12. THIS print is 18" x 18".  That said, don't fear the other sizes. They all have considerable visual 'pop'. I'll have to frame up a 24x24 here and shoot it, just for the WOW factor.

Teenagers around the world went crazy for that American rock & roll!  Italy was not spared the R&R onslaught as this utterly dance-ified gal can attest.

I picked up this Italian pressing of four Platters tunes on one disc, 45RPM, years ago with another by Little Tony and several by one of my all time faves, Mina, but the cover of this one, the total surrender to the goofiness of the moment as only a kid would dare do always brings a smile to my face.

Milan based graphic designer and photographer Gian Greguoli created the wild yet refreshingly simple cover.  He was very active in this period, and his work is all in all pretty groovy.

The other images are for reference.  Most of them are also prints available in our catalog.

SHIPPING
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Every print we deem exciting enough to present to the public via our Etsy store or available here at our studio has gone through a number of steps.  The first of those is always discovering and falling in love with an obscure image, always an original that we can hold in our hands.  That image is speaking to us, sometime screaming “Don’t leave me here.  See what I am, what I was, what I can be, what I SHOULD be!”

There is a real sense of excitement involved, and a great many smiles and knowing grins when we make that deal and bring that ancient print, that battered photo, that scrap of ephemera that contains some scrap of genius from an unknown commercial artist home with us, knowing already how we mean to approach its restoration.

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Then there is a meticulous digital restoration that is as often as much fun as riding a vintage Moto Guzzi on a winding coastal road.  I don’t care if that sounds crazy, it really is like jumping in the saddle!  So many choices, so many chances to take to subtly or spectacularly give new life to otherwise permanently obscure images.

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