About the Work
Iggy Pop is photographed by Mick Rock in New York City in 1980, set against a spray-painted background that flattens the space into raw texture and throws the singer’s confrontational, bare-chested presence into sharp relief. The image distills the physical intensity and provocation that defined Iggy Pop on stage.
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.
