Editing Between the Buttons (section)

==Artwork==
The photoshoot for the album cover took place in November 1966 on [[Primrose Hill]] in North London. The photographer was [[Gered Mankowitz]], who also shot the band photos for the cover of ''[[Out of Our Heads]]''. The shoot took place at 5:30 in the morning following an all-night recording session at Olympic Studios. Using a homemade camera filter constructed of black card, glass and [[Vaseline]], Mankowitz created the effect of the Stones dissolving into their surroundings. The goal of the shoot was, in Mankowitz's words, "to capture the ethereal, druggy feel of the time; that feeling at the end of the night when dawn was breaking and they'd been up all night making music, stoned."<ref>{{cite book |last=Craske |first=Oliver |title=Rock Faces - The World's Top Rock 'n' Roll Photographers and Their Greatest Images |publisher=Rotovision |year=2004 |pages=89 |isbn=978-2-88046-781-4}}</ref> 

The cover photo was shot at the Primrose Hill viewpoint in the misty early-morning sunlight, looking west. Brian Jones' dishevelled and gaunt appearance disturbed many of his fans, and critic David Dalton wrote that he looked "like a doomed albino raccoon."<ref name=Davis/> "Brian [Jones] was lurking in his collar", Mankowitz commented years later. "I was frustrated because it felt like we were on the verge of something really special, and he was messing it up. But the way Brian appeared to not give a shit is exactly what the band was about."<ref>{{cite book |last=Woolridge |first=Max |title=Rock 'N' Roll London |publisher=New Holland Publishers |year=2002 |location=Singapore |pages=72 |isbn=0-312-30442-0}}</ref> Outtakes from this photo session were later used for the cover and inner sleeves of the 1972 [[ABKCO]] compilation release ''[[More Hot Rocks (Big Hits & Fazed Cookies)]]''.

The back cover of ''Between the Buttons'' is dominated by a six-panel cartoon accompanied by a rhythmic poem drawn by drummer Charlie Watts. When Watts asked Oldham what the title of the album would be, he told him it was "between the buttons", a name Jagger came up with after noticing the shiny buttons on Watt's shirt. <ref name=Davis/> On the album cover itself, the band name and album title appear on the buttons on Watts' overcoat. Often difficult to see, this text was included blown up on a hype sticker affixed to original US pressings and would also be added to the bottom corners of the artwork for several CD and LP reissues.