Help me find people on roofs

April 29, 2009 2:53 AM

Can anyone find the original image that was used for this mocked-up Mirror's Edge game cover? And more like it?

I saw a bunch of these (brilliant) game covers but the Mirror's Edge one really stuck with me, because I love the photograph used.

Can anybody help me find the original photograph and more like it?

I don't know what it is about that particular photo that I like but if there's a particular photographer who did shots like that, etc, maybe there'd be more like it. I'm not looking for general people-on-rooftops photos – the one I've linked to seems to come from a particular time and place (I could be way off, but it seems like 1950s/60s Paris to me), so things like this related to that would be great.

(Incidentally, I have asked the guy who did the faux-game art I've linked to and I haven't recieved a reply. I don't want to pester him and I'm interested in finding more like it as well as the original image.)

Thank you!

posted by SamuelBowman to media & arts (4 comments total)

I think that's almost definitely the UN headquarters in NYC.
posted by DavidNYC at 3:03 AM on April 29

TinEye has a few results, notably what appears to be a Swedish teenagers blog, although the page it was on 404s and the blog appears to be abandoned. I had a quick search for the image or keywords on her new blog, but no joy.

The filename for the linked page, however, lead me to a search for Shrimpbailey2, which further lead me to this image on Photobucket. So, this seems to come from a set of pics. Doing a google for Shrimp Bailey, shrimpbailey and other variations thereof, led me to this eBay listing for a 1965 vintage Vogue, featuring a cover shoot of Jean Shrimpton by the photographer David Bailey.

More googling, and here's the full set of pictures, including your original.

Ithankyou.

*small bow*
posted by Happy Dave at 3:26 AM on April 29 [12 favorites]

Wow! I did not expect that, especially not 30 minutes later!

Thank you very much indeed!
posted by SamuelBowman at 3:50 AM on April 29

Happy Dave, that is some really excellent work there. Well done!
posted by Admiral Haddock at 7:27 PM on April 29