peterchecksfield wrote:thekiller92 wrote:Phillips spent quite much money on Jerry Lee, but it doesn't seem like he spent it on photographys...

That's very true. There seems to have been very few formal photoshoots from the Sun era (& not many from later either, hence still using pics from a 1967 photoshoot for the cover of 'The Killer Rocks On' 5 years later!).
1967 on the front, maybe...1964 on the rear!
If you took your cue from the photography used by Mercury, you might think that JLL was only 31 years old when he released "I-40 Country" in 1974...
Having said that, there were some great photoshoots of JLL organised by Mercury in the mid-sixties but much of the best of the output seems to have been sent to France for use on EP and LP sleeves in that country alone and never seen since!
As a result of Sam Phillips' parsimony when it came to employing photographers, we are left with a total of some thirty-five different EP issues on the Sun and London labels which collectively use a grand total of eight different b/w photos (and one drawing) of JLL for the cover art. As few as five photos actually 'account' for 30 plus of these EP covers!
JLL is undoubtedly the most poorly represented of the great 50s rockers on contemporary silver bromide paper. Relatively minor figures such as Gene Vincent and Eddie Cochran were the subject of excellent, creative photoshoots organised by their respective record companies that have left us with enduring images of them in their youthful pomp. Conversely, barely a single roll of film seems to have been expended on JLL in those early, glory years... having said that, there are one or two interesting 1958 pics from the Chicago Tribune archives currently listed on ebay...