By Lori Zimmer

May 2012

— Mick Rock is the man responsible for preserving the glamour, guts and sexual energy that was part and parcel with rock n roll in the ’70s and ’80s. With his camera, Rock captured Iggy Pop’s cosmic back bends, a thickly kohl-eyed Syd Barrett in his living room, a very young Debbie Harry, and dozens of intimate tour moments with David Bowie as Ziggy Stardust.

The photos are older than me, but they seem new. The glam rock style is still influencing fashion today, thanks in large part to Rock’s epic catalogue of work that went beyond the average rock show documentation, and instead captured snippets of the real lives of rock n roll legends.