Soprano

Inside the image.

A square album cover with a mostly white background and a monochrome blue-tinted photograph of a seated woman in the lower half. She is positioned slightly left of centre, shown from about the waist up, with dark, voluminous curly hair and a dark top. Her forearms are folded across one another, with one hand raised near her chin; she looks towards the viewer. A curved, pale chair back is partly visible along the bottom edge. The photograph has a soft, slightly grainy appearance, with pale blue-grey tones in the face and arms and deep navy shadows in the hair and clothing. The figure is cropped at the bottom, while broad areas of white space remain around her, especially to the right and above.

Large, widely spaced blue serif capitals reading “E L E N” run across the top. Beneath the final letters at upper right is the smaller phrase “ap robert”, set in blue italic lowercase lettering. The word “soprano” appears near the lower right in dark, widely spaced lowercase letters with a serif appearance. The typography sits directly on the white ground and balances the portrait, with the upper title spanning almost the full width and the lower word offset beside the figure. The overall design is a simple photographic composition with restrained colour and generous negative space.