About the Photograph
An original contact sheet of David Bowie by Mick Rock, made backstage on the 1972 Scotland tour, preserving a sequence of candid frames from behind the scenes of the Ziggy Stardust show.
Mick Rock — “the man who shot the seventies” — held rare, sustained access to the era’s defining artists, from David Bowie and Lou Reed to Iggy Pop and Queen. This piece belongs to a group of unique vintage prints from his personal archive held by The Music Photo Gallery.
This is an original vintage contact sheet, a unique gelatin silver print measuring 8 × 10 inches, hand-annotated and stamped by the photographer on the verso. No other copy of this print is known.
