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Mick Rock

Biography

Mick Rock

Mick Rock is one of the most widely recognized and prolific music photographers of the 1970s and was the only one authorized to record Ziggy.

Mick Rock

Books by Mick Rock

by David Bowie and Mick Rock - Art, Music, Nonfiction, Photography

In 1972 David Bowie released the iconic LP The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, which established him as a major force in modern pop music. It was also his platform to present a visually fascinating and sexually ambivalent stage persona called Ziggy Stardust. Simultaneously, Bowie befriended the famed rock-and-roll photographer, Mick Rock, whom he invited to chronicle his Ziggy persona on film. Together, David Bowie's text and Mick Rock's images trace the rise and final swansong of Ziggy Stardust.