MICK ROCK “EXPOSED” PAPERBACK EDITION

It’s a retrospective that tributes the weird and the
wonderful and also knocks these stars off their pedestal –
if only momentarily. He who shot them brings all their
quirks to life and there’s certainly an air of inspiration among them all.”
– FBI Radio

– New small format paperback edition
– Features the definitive collection of photographs from the acclaimed rock photographer
– Personal recollections of all the best known musicians spanning Mick Rock’s 40-year career

Mick Rock, the foremost rock photographer of his generation, reveals in Exposed his definitive collection of images, telling the story in his own words of his early career and the larger-than-life characters with whom he mixed. As well as being a retrospective of his work, it is a cultural journey through a time when rock ruled. It is a compendium of experiences, eyewitness accounts, and intimate detail, all culminating in candid incidental visual insights and time-tested iconic imagery that we all recognise today.

Exposed is a vivid and memorable account of Rock’s adventures behind the camera, a colourful blend of the overt and the intimate, the beautiful and the irreverent – truly exposed.

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For my sins in a former life, I’ve been forced to spend an inordinate amount of time with musicians in this life. Of course, I love them.

A camera is a wonderful ally. It requires minimal maintenance and provides entry to a world of endless imagery.

My ambition was not to be a great photographer (though that certainly would have been a worthy stance). It was a lust to embrace anything that startled or energized me.

I am not in the business of documenting or revealing personalities. I am in the business of freezing shadows and bottling auras.

Without the rock ‘n rollers, I would not have developed as an image man.

You want to shock people with a bit of mystery and beauty. That’s my favorite kind of shocking.

I’ve never felt like a voyeur, although I’ve certainly done plenty of looking!

There’s an art to looking back - how to celebrate the past without being entrapped by it. Photographs provide the great physical link.

My allegiance was always to the act. I wanted them to be happy. I wasn’t owned by a magazine or a record label.

I smell pictures more than I see them and I hear pictures more than I can smell them. It’s very habit forming.