While there he became friendly with classmate Barrett, who was playing guitar with Pink Floyd. 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. In 2008 he shot a tousle-haired Lady Gaga in what he called “the bathtub session” during the run-up to her debut album, “The Fame.” His 2020 image of Miley Cyrus donning studded leather gloves, thick silver necklaces and wearing firetruck red lipstick exudes a matter-of-fact power.īorn Michael Edward Chester Smith on Nov. “Those who had the pleasure of existing in his orbit, know that Mick was always so much more than ’The Man Who Shot The 70s.’ He was a photographic poet - a true force of nature who spent his days doing exactly what he loved, always in his own delightfully outrageous way.”ĭespite being best known for his images from the glam era, the photographer’s name became so synonymous with rock (literally) that would-be superstars lined up to be given the Rock treatment. “It is with the heaviest of hearts that we share our beloved psychedelic renegade Mick Rock has made the Jungian journey to the other side,” wrote Rock’s estate in an Instagram post announcing his death, the cause of which was not provided. His eye-popping photos of “Rocky Horror Picture Show” actors Tim Curry, Susan Sarandon and Pat Quinn helped frame the camp-driven, anything-goes exuberance of the period. Rock’s portraits appeared on essential album covers including the Stooges’ “Raw Power,” Joan Jett’s “I Love Rock ‘n’ Roll,” Queen’s “Queen II” the Ramones’ “End of the Century” and “The Madcap Laughs” by Syd Barrett. “None had the appetite for mascara that I did.” The legendary photographer’s images of London in the 1970s captured, in vibrant Technicolor hues, the androgynous glam scene of former hippies like him who had “acquired an occasional, deliciously illicit taste for eyeliner, rouge and lipgloss,” as he wrote. 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.” “Just get the bloody picture,” he said to writer Barney Hoskyns in a 2014 interview. 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.
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