The Stylishly Alternative Covers

Antony and the Johnsons: I Am a Bird Now (2005) For the cover of his band's second album, lead singer Antony Hegarty honored photographer Peter Hujar by using Hujar's image of famed transvestite and Andy Warhol cohort Candy Darling. In a 2007 homage to the photographer for the Guardian, Hegarty described arriving in New York City in 1990, when much of the city's art community had succumbed to AIDS-related illnesses -- Hujar included. The melancholy of that era is palpable in this haunting image, as well as in the music. -- MJ