This picture is best known as the "Back Catalogue" and perfectly emphasizes the entire album art work history of Pink Floyd. When you look at this picture you hear Pink Floyd. The story of this picture is very interesting, as it is said by Storm Thorgerson in his book "Mind Over Matter: The Images Of Pink Floyd".
After remastering of the whole band's discografy was finished in 1995, transformig the original vinil sets into cd's didn't came out as expected from the point of view of the album art work. And Pink Floyd was and still is famous for not only the music but also for the beautiful and meaningfull cover sleeves of all of their albums. More exactly the record companies back then, simply adapted the original vynil covers for the cd's and squeezed it roughly into two or for page booklet. After realising that, the producers decided to design proper cd booklets with full lyrics, carefully scaled down original art and photos added.
The ideea of this picture came from the need of the record companies of properly advertising the Pink Floyd's catalogue. Five ideas of promoting the projects came out but only two were considered to be feasible. The first one contained no music and showed foreign art lovers commenting on the band's covers. The languages used were Islandic, Hindi, Japanese and Italian.
The second ideea contained a slow side track across a group of naked boys and girls sitting chatting on the edge of a swimming pool. On their 
back were painted fascimile copies of selected Floyd covers from the catalogue. The designs were not projected nor computer designed, but were directly brilliantly and preciselly painted by Phyllis Cohen - so as to follow body curves and reflect the lightning. The record company liked this second idea but as a poster and containig only women. It was Storm Thorgerson who decided that the poster should contain only women, as he belived that the backs represented album covers and should therefore be the same generically - all men or all women; the women shape is of course more elegant and sensitive.
The albums choosen to be apart of the famous poster are:
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