Photographer Mick Rock on the opening reception for Mick Rock: Capturing For Stardust – The Upward thrust Of David Bowie & Co. in Los Angeles in 2015.
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Photographer Mick Rock on the opening reception for Mick Rock: Capturing For Stardust – The Upward thrust Of David Bowie & Co. in Los Angeles in 2015.
Angela Weiss/Getty Pictures
As soon as dubbed “The Guy Who Shot The ’70s,” rock ‘n’ roll photographer Mick Rock has died at age 72. His demise used to be introduced on his Twitter page.
“It’s with the heaviest of hearts that we proportion our liked psychedelic renegade has made the Jungian adventure to the opposite aspect,” the observation starts.
Throughout an technology of intercourse, medication and rock ‘n’ roll, Mick Rock used to be each participant and observer, photographing everyone: a back-bending, shirtless Iggy Pop, Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust, Lou Reed’s comically haunting Transformer duvet. A sensuous Rock portrait of Blondie vocalist Debbie Harry used to be selected for the duvet of Penthouse in February 1980.
Rock’s photographs graced dozens of album covers, together with Queen 2, with the band’s faces sparkling inside of a black background. Roxy Track, Crimson Floyd, Carly Simon: the checklist of Rock’s glamorous, incessantly scrappy topics is in depth. And more recent generations of artists additionally solicited his artistry, together with Snoop Dogg, Woman Gaga and Alicia Keyes.
As Claire O’Neill reported for NPR in 2012, “Rock by no means deliberate on being a photographer. He used to be learning language and literature at Cambridge College, and located himself in the precise position on the proper time. He were given prime, picked up a chum’s digital camera, ‘and started to play,’ he says.”
You’ll be able to see a few of Rock’s iconic photographs in O’Neill’s tale, here.
The tribute on Rock’s Twitter feed calls him “a photographic poet—a real pressure of nature who spent his days doing precisely what he cherished, all the time in his personal delightfully outrageous means.”
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