I’ve seen an iconic image of Miles Davis a million times - on shirts, on posters, in magazine articles, but now I can’t find it online at all, and I’m wondering if it even exists.
Miles is sitting at a table, I think with his arms in front of him, and he’s wearing crazy bug-eye sunglasses. I even found this picture, which seems to be a reference to it, but I can’t find the original.
Does it exist, or am I conflating different pictures?
What you’re describing reminds me of the album covers for the Blackhawk records (two, I think) from early in his Columbia days. Except I don’t remember his sitting.
Sorry for that. Here’s what I was remembering – poorly.
I believe I found the picture the OP refers to while searching through my library’s microfiche. It appears on the December 13, 1969 cover of Rolling Stone. It’s the exact pose he was referring to; unfortunately I can’t find the original on the internet and the issue had no credits for the photo. I’m pretty sure it also appears on the back cover of the CD reissue of “Bitches’ Brew”.
Well, I don’t know much about the subject, but I can google like there’s no tomorrow.
That’s the one! I (incorrectly) remembered it as being sunglasses.
Good work! What words did you search on?
Oh well, now the unimpressiveness gets revealed.
It was just “December 13, 1969 cover of Rolling Stone” but without quotes.
1st link.
The tubes man! They work every time!
This has nothing to do with the OP, but this is the image that I have in mind when Miles Davis is mentioned…
