MICK ROCK | Blood and Glitter

Mick Rock's eyewitness account of Glam Rock. Beautiful photos of David Bowie, Iggy Pop, Syd Barrett, Lou Reed, Queen, Freddie Mercury, Wizard, Blondie, The Ramones, and many more. Pages are clean and crisp. Cover has moderate wear. Cover has a closed tear, frayed corner, minor scratching and edge wear. Good ++ condition. "If Mick Rock had taken only two photos in his entire life- the 1972 shot of Iggy Pop as a burnished statue of sinew and make-up, used for The Stooges' Raw Power cover, and the hazy, ethereal 1972 portrait of David Bowie, which made it onto the sleeve of Space Oddity - he'd still have been a living God amongst anyone who grew up through the 70s. As Blood And Glitter demonstrates with relentless panache, Rock did not stop at a pair of zeitgeist-freezing images. From the rare, revealing session with Pink Floyd's Syd Barrett in 1971, through to 1977 when his Johnny Rotten portrait took Brit-punk style to the US via the Cambridge-educated rock'n'roll photographer conveyed