Grace Jones by Jean-Paul Goude. After being inspired by Grace’s on-stage performance, legendary French fashion photographer Jean-Paul Goude and musical icon gracejonesofficial decided that a shoot was in order. From one of their very first meetings, the concept for the ‘Island Life’ cover was born. ‘I photographed her in a variety of positions,’ Goude writes in his memoir, ‘which I combined into a montage that made it possible to show her simultaneously full frontal and in profile. Then, having transferred the montage to photographic paper, I used it as the preliminary sketch for a painting meant to give the photographic illusion that she alone, like a contortionist, could assume the pose’ However, on closer inspection, you can see that from a strictly anatomical point of view, the pose is impossible to achieve. Thus, the cover is not actually a single image but a series of shots cut together to give the appearance of acrobatic impossibility and absolute GRACE! Who knew?! For all ...