AC/DC's Powerage & Highway to Hell photo session, December 1977
Only one session two record covers
POWERAGE
Powerage album front
"Powerage" New Zealand ( blue lettering) / "RnR Damnation" single Japan
Powerage back ( color variations) / Single
"Rock N Roll Damnation" maxi single ( noir & Blanc) / réédition 45t 1980 / "HtoH" single from Benelux
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By Jim Oughton (photo) + assistant unknown & Earl Steinbicker ( lightning)
Art direction Bob Defrin (Atlantic)
"Jim took the
photo on Ektachrome film with a Hasselblad 500EL camera equipped with
an 80mm Planar lens, using a single Balcar studio strobe, umbrella
reflector and a Calumet generator."
For the same session there were two different backgrounds or lightning, one most likely used for Powerage and the other for "Highway to hell"
Powerage unused pics from session, some ended up on bootlegs and others in the press.
Never could find the original pic that was used for the cover of Powerage
Promotional American poster for Powerage with quite similar background (grey) and shot used on the Highway to Hell album
HIGHWAY TO HELL
different album covers (original pic heavily airbrushed)
On the original picture below, Angus eyes are almost closed
Session with grey background/ lightning
some more...
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German poster ( wrong side) included in German Tour edition of Highway to Hell
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Highway to hell backcover with non- airbrushed Phil Rudd Tee shirt
Session in Brooklyn Staten Island on the unfinished West Shore Expressway spring 1979
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What happened to Jim Houghton ?
He vanished many years ago, not even his family knows where he is or if he's still alive
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