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Artist/Maker	Factory Records (Record label) Atkins, Martyn (artist) Saville, Peter (artist) Wolff, Bernard Pierre (photographer)
Place of origin	UK (designed and printed)

Record sleeve, white card with a black and white photograph of the Appiani family tomb in the Cimitero Monumentale di Staglieno in Geneva, Italy.

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Categories	Prints Music
Object type	Record Sleeve
Title	Closer (published title)
Materials and techniques	printed on paper Paper Printed
Brief description	Vinyl record sleeve 'Closer' by Joy Division, designed by Martyn Atkins and Peter Saville, UK, 1980
Physical description	Record sleeve, white card with a black and white photograph of the Appiani family tomb in the Cimitero Monumentale di Staglieno in Geneva, Italy.
Dimensions	Height: 31.4cm Width: 31.4cm
Marks and inscriptions	CLOSER JOY DIVISION/ FACT XXV A FACTORY RECORDS PRODUCT Translation verso
Subject depicted	Death
Place depicted	Geneva
Association	Joy Division
Collection	Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number	E.357-2011

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Record created	January 29, 2013
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1260452/closer-record-sleeve-atkins-martyn/

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