ROCKED : A Photo Exhibition By Mick Rock

A new traveling exhibit of the work of Mick has just been announced. ROCKED: A Photo Exhibition By Mick Rock will premier at the W Hotel Downtown 123 Washington Street at Albany Street in New York, NY on December 8 to 29 2011.

The event is open to the public and it’s Free.

It includes photos of David Bowie, Debbie Harry, Iggy Pop, Queen, Ozzy Osbourne, Madonna, Kate Moss, Joan Jett, Mick Jagger. Lou Reed, Bono and Lady Gaga, Ceelo Green, Janelle Monaie, Theophilus London etc

It will travel to W Hotels across the country in 2012

Starting with W Hotel Washington DC in February and W Seattle March 2012

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.