Art: One man's collection of 893 used copies of The Beatles' White Album

Date
14 November 2013

Rutherford Chang listens to The White Album every day. As well as doing this, he also spends his time tracking down every single vinyl copy of the album he possibly can. He’s never paid more than $20 or less than $1 for a copy, and he prefers the white LP to be well-used. When his collection began to grow, what he found most exciting about it was the individual way in which each album had been decorated or annotated on by its owner. To provide the public with a blank album was The Beatles’ way of giving it to us to make of it what we wish, for us to decorate it and send it on to Rutherford Chang is precisely the kind of way that it will remain one of the most timeless albums of our time. Great project – see the whole collection in high res over on his site.

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Rutherford Chang: We Buy White Albums

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Rutherford Chang: We Buy White Albums

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Rutherford Chang: We Buy White Albums

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Rutherford Chang: We Buy White Albums

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Rutherford Chang: We Buy White Albums

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Rutherford Chang: We Buy White Albums

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Liv Siddall

Liv joined It’s Nice That as an intern in 2011 and worked across online, print and events, and was latterly Features Editor before leaving in May 2015.

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