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“A rock star only reflects our projections”

The rock star is having a hard time: Most summer festivals have been canceled, the pandemic is robbing him of the stage. Fortunately, there are Mick Rock’s iconic photographs. He opened his archive for us.

A flesh-and-blood rock star and a “witty guy”: David Bowie was Mick Rock’s most important photo model and a close friend, here in a 1972 photo.

MICK ROCK 2021

Skirt! The man is actually called that. Still, it was no coincidence that he mainly photographed rock musicians throughout his life. As early as the late 1960s, as a student of modern languages, music fans were more drawn to the London beat clubs than to the Cambridge seminars. Today the 73-year-old Brit is one of the most influential pop photographers of all.

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