Though he made his shooting on the '70s London glam music scene, Mick Rock quickly became, and remained, the ultimate rock star photographer.
When he first started doing portraits of rock stars including David Bowie, Blondie, Queen, Lou Reed and Iggy Pop, photographer Mick Rock quickly learned not to get hung up on technique.Rock, who died Thursday at 72, explained it more eloquently later in his autobiography, “Glam! An Eyewitness Account”: “First you seduce the retina, then you subvert the other senses.”
“When people ask me what inspired me, it was really the charisma of a lot of my early subjects. It certainly wasn’t other photographers,” he told Hoskyns. Born Michael Edward Chester Smith on Nov. 22, 1948, in Hammersmith, London, Rock was first educated at the prestigious Emanuel School and then advanced to University of Cambridge’s Gonville & Caius College. While there he became friendly with classmate Barrett, who was playing guitar with Pink Floyd.
Through his work with longtime muse Bowie, Rock learned what he called “lessons in the alchemy of image-making and the mystery of its durability,” and in glam rock he found a scene whose philosophy aligned with Rock’s ambition to “build up a collection where the sum of all the parts is more valuable than the single session.”
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