Photographer Mick Rock at the opening reception for Mick Rock: Shooting For Stardust – Rise of David Bowie & Co. in Los Angeles in 2015.
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Photographer Mick Rock at the opening reception for Mick Rock: Shooting For Stardust – Rise of David Bowie & Co. in Los Angeles in 2015.
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Once dubbed “The Man Who Shoots the ’70s,” rock ‘n’ roll photographer Mick Rock has died at the age of 72. His death was announced on Jan. his Twitter page.
“It was with the heaviest hearts we shared that our beloved psychedelic betrayal made the Jungian journey to the other side,” the statement began.
In an age of sex, drugs, and rock ‘n’ roll, Mick Rock is both a player and an observer, snapping pictures of people: crouched, topless Iggy Pop, Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust, obsession Humor by Lou Reed Transformers cover. A sexy Rock portrait of Blondie vocalist Debbie Harry was chosen for the cover of Penthouse in February 1980.
Rock’s image has appeared on dozens of album covers, including Queen 2, with the band’s face glowing in the black background. Roxy Music, Pink Floyd, Carly Simon: Rock’s list of glamorous, often disparaged objects is extensive. And newer generations of artists are also asking for his artists, including Snoop Dogg, Lady Gaga and Alicia Keyes.
As Claire O’Neill reported to NPR in 2012, “Rock never planned to be a photographer. He was studying languages and literature at Cambridge University, and found himself in the right place. the place at the right time. He reached high, picked up a friend’s camera ‘and started playing,’ he said.”
You can see some of the iconic images of Rock in O’Neill’s story, here.
Rock’s Twitter feed tribute calls him “a photographic poet – a veritable force of nature who spends his days doing exactly what he loves, always in the same way.” interesting on his own.”
