Jacques Benoit 
Press insert published in 1974 for “Diamond Dogs”(one of David Bowie’s imperishable masterpieces), showing the visual of the album’s front cover.
A work by painter and visual artist Guy Peelleart, made after photographs by Terry O’Neill and appearing there as it was originally conceived and designed
by Bowie, then painted by Peelleart. That is, with the uncensored Diamond Dog’s genitals displayed on the first version of the record’s sleeve.
Challenged by the outcry, the RCA label quickly withdrew these copies from the market, and re-released "Diamond Dogs" with the disputed area darkened with airbrush.
It took about twenty years before the original work (a victim at the time of Anglo-Saxon Puritanism,
which has since contaminated all human societies unfortunately under the avatar of "political correctness"), could resume its place on the album’s cover,
with its CD reissues of the 1990s. In our times of Facebook and Instagram that censor "L’Origine du Monde"... When is this "Dogs" artwork to be banned again?...
( Archives J. Benoit )
A work by painter and visual artist Guy Peelleart, made after photographs by Terry O’Neill and appearing there as it was originally conceived and designed
by Bowie, then painted by Peelleart. That is, with the uncensored Diamond Dog’s genitals displayed on the first version of the record’s sleeve.
Challenged by the outcry, the RCA label quickly withdrew these copies from the market, and re-released "Diamond Dogs" with the disputed area darkened with airbrush.
It took about twenty years before the original work (a victim at the time of Anglo-Saxon Puritanism,
which has since contaminated all human societies unfortunately under the avatar of "political correctness"), could resume its place on the album’s cover,
with its CD reissues of the 1990s. In our times of Facebook and Instagram that censor "L’Origine du Monde"... When is this "Dogs" artwork to be banned again?...
( Archives J. Benoit )
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© Jacques Benoit. Design, works, photographies and texts by Jacques Benoit and under the author’s copyright. Except when derived from other sources and then mentioned as such.