Peter Campbell’s London Review of Books covers

Peter Campbell, who died this week, was the resident designer and art critic for the London Review of Books. As well as being its most prolific contributor, he also produced the glorious cover illustrations that so distinguished the magazine. Take a look through our gallery of some of his best work
  
  


Peter Campbell art : Peter Campbell cover of London Review of Books
20 October 2011: Campbell's final cover for the LRB Photograph: London Review of Books
Peter Campbell art : Peter Campbell cover of London Review of Books
9 September 2011 A dusky, soft-toned picture of a twilit car journey, for an edition featuring a story by Alan Bennett Photograph: London Review of Books
Peter Campbell art : Peter Campbell cover of London Review of Books
10 April 2008: Lowryesque factories spew out beautiful, rainbow-hued smoke in an edition in which the main piece, by Gareth Peirce, was headlined The War on British Muslims Photograph: London Review of Books
Peter Campbell art : Peter Campbell cover of London Review of Books
26 February 2009: An elegant, penguin-suited waiter stands soberly before a room full of empty tables in this issue, featuring Perry Anderson writing about Italy's decline Photograph: London Review of Books
Peter Campbell art : Peter Campbell cover of London Review of Books
6 September 2007: In this issue, in which Benjamin Kunkel writes on Roberto Bolano, an elegant, attenuated woman stands reading before a dusty pink backdrop Photograph: London Review of Books
Peter Campbell art : Peter Campbell cover of London Review of Books
20 January 2005: A dour picture of a lone woman on a train station, lit by whimsical splashes of colour (is she going on holiday, or returning?) fronts an issue in which Stefan Collini writes about the new Dictionary of National Biography Photograph: London Review of Books
Peter Campbell art : Peter Campbell cover of London Review of Books
21 September 2006: An impeccably white-suited, highly decorated but faceless officer provides a fitting cover image for an issue featuring a piece by Tony Judt on Bush's Useful Idiots Photograph: London Review of Books
Peter Campbell art : Peter Campbell cover of London Review of Books
18 August 2005: Ian Hacking's cover-feature on the Birth and Death of the Brain is beautifully brought to life in this lively illustrationg Photograph: London Review of Books
Peter Campbell art : Peter Campbell cover of London Review of Books
20 March 2003 Faceless crowds on an ocean liner in front of an airless city Photograph: London Review of Books
 

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