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File:Porsche-signatures.webp|thumb|Edition 14 of 40. Signatures on the lid of the original box
File:Porsche-signatures.webp|thumb|Edition 14 of 40. Signatures on the lid of the original white box
File:Porsche-Oehlen.jpg|thumb|Albert Oehlen print dated 1989 with the same photo
File:Porsche-Oehlen.jpg|thumb|Albert Oehlen print dated 1989 with the same photo
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Revision as of 00:32, 2 November 2022

File:Porsche-banner.webp
1990 banner
Dimensions: 148 x 400 cm. (58.3 x 157.5 in.)

The Quiet Album is a 1990 work by Albert Oehlen, Mayo Thompson, and Werner Büttner.

In 1995 German radio program Popalphabet listed The Quiet Album with the rest of The Red Crayola's discography[1]. Later that year, American fanzine Puncture wrote that it was "described by Thompson as a picture of the band [...] printed onto parachute silk. There was no album per se."[2]

The band's 2004 biography explains that the album "comprised a banner showing a black and white reproduction of a photograph of [the group] life-size, singing with their faces pressed against the closed windows of Oehlen’s Porsche Targa parked in the snow in Hamburg. It was a limited edition, came in a white box modeled on The Beatles 'White Album,' and sold out immediately."[3]

On October 30, 2021 a banner matching the description above auctioned for €2,400.[4] The seller was apparently able only to decipher Oehlen's signature, and was likely unaware it was an 'album'.

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