About the Photograph
David Bowie is photographed by Mick Rock under a single spotlight in 1972, the beam isolating the singer against darkness in one of Rock’s more graphic Ziggy-era stage studies.
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 photograph belongs to a group of unique vintage prints from his personal archive held by The Music Photo Gallery.
This is a unique vintage gelatin silver print measuring 8 × 10 inches, stamped by the photographer on the verso. No other copy of this print is known.
