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Mick Rock Exposed is a definitive collection from the foremost rock photographer of his generation. Mick Rock shares his personal stories and iconic images from a career launched with David Bowie in 1972, capturing the rise and fall of Ziggy Stardust. This retrospective offers a cultural journey through rock's golden era, featuring intimate insights and legendary photographs of stars like Lou Reed, Iggy Pop, Queen, The Sex Pistols, and Blondie, as well as contemporary icons such as Kate Moss and The Killers. His work, including pieces displayed in the National Portrait Gallery, London, combines the bold and the candid in a vivid celebration of rock history.
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This book is ideal for fans of rock music, photography enthusiasts, and readers interested in cultural history, offering a unique behind-the-scenes perspective on iconic musicians and the 1970s music scene.

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Photographer Mick Rock reveals his definitive collection of images, telling the story in his own words of his early career and the larger-than-life characters with whom he mixed.

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Mick Rock Exposed presents Mick Rock as the foremost rock photographer of his generation. In this collection, Mick reveals his definitive images, sharing the story of his early career and the larger-than-life characters he encountered. This work serves as both a retrospective of his photography and a cultural journey through a time dominated by rock music.

This compendium is filled with experiences, eyewitness accounts, and intimate details, culminating in candid visual insights and iconic imagery recognised today. It offers a vivid and memorable account of Rock's adventures behind the camera, blending the overt with the intimate, the beautiful with the irreverent – truly exposed.

Mick Rock's illustrious career began with photographing an almost unknown David Bowie in 1972. An instant rapport led him to document the rise and fall of Ziggy Stardust, capturing thousands of photographs, posters, album artwork and several videos. His reputation as "the man who shot the Seventies" was cemented with iconic images of Lou Reed, Syd Barrett, Iggy Pop, Queen, The Sex Pistols, The Ramones, and Blondie.

More recently, Mick has captured with his camera the likes of Kate Moss, Michael Stipe, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Chemical Brothers, Razorlight, The Killers, and The Libertines. His work is displayed in the National Portrait Gallery, London.

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"Mick Rock Exposed is well worth your time. It's a retrospective that tributes the weird and the wonderful and also knocks these stars off their pedestal – if only momentarily. He who shot them brings all their quirks to life and there's certainly an air of inspiration among them all." - FBI Radio

The book includes 200 colour and black & white photographs.

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"Mick Rock: Exposed is well worth your time. It's a retrospective that tributes the weird and the wonderful and also knocks these stars off their pedestal – if only momentarily. He who shot them brings all their quirks to life and there's certainly an air of inspiration among them all." – FBI Radio

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780957148345

Publisher: Gemini Books Group Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 01 September 2014

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Palazzo Editions Ltd

Contributors:

  • By Mick Rock
  • Afterword by Andrew Loog Oldman
  • Foreword by Tom Stoppard

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 234.0mm

Height: 193.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 256

About the Author

Mick Rock’s career was launched when he photographed an almost unknown David Bowie in 1972. The two established an instant rapport and Rock went on to document the rise and fall of Ziggy Stardust. His reputation as ‘the man who shot the Seventies’ was cemented with iconic images of Lou Reed, Syd Barrett, Iggy Pop, Queen, The Sex Pistols, The Ramones and Blondie. More recently, Mick has exposed with his camera Kate Moss, Michael Stipe, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Chemical Brothers, Razor light, The Killers and The Libertines.

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