Here are 11 photos of David Bowie (and friends) by photographer Mick Rock taken at a small exhibition I was fortunate to stumble upon in Oslo on 8 June 2016.
Bowie died ten years ago today in New York, six months before this exhibition; I’ve enjoyed the remembrances in recent days, a pleasant distraction from the news of the murder of a 37-year-old mother by an ICE agent in Minneapolis that has dominated recent days.
Planet earth is blue and there’s nothing I can do.
Rock, who was often referred to as ‘The Man Who Shot the Seventies’ and who worked as Bowie’s official photographer, died in New York in 2021.
Apologies for the glare; most of the images were facing the street and unusually bright sunlight.
Photos from 8 June 2016.
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Thanks for sharing these Bob, Bowie was a larger than life figure, to me anyway. The Rise & Fall of Ziggy Stardust … was possibly the first album I bought and I found Bowie fascinating in my younger days. I love the live on stage shot
Same – Ziggy was one of my first albums, too. The shot with Lou Reed and Iggy Pop is a nice historical nugget, too. I saw Iggy Pop live at Nice Jazz Festival 2 or 3 years ago and was amazed by the energy he still has. The voice has declined, but hey, he is 78. Bowie’s comeback with Blackstar was extraordinary, especially given how ill he was when recording it.
Nice set, thanks for sharing them here. Even with the glare his personalities shine through. The world really did appear to change after Bowie left the planet.
Indeed. I read something along those exact lines in the Guardian review of a new Bowie documentary: “There’s a theory that the world spun off its axis with the passing of David Bowie, 10 days into January 2016.”
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/jan/03/bowie-the-final-act-10-years-after-his-death-the-rock-god-gets-a-rapturous-resurrection