Mick Rock Supports Lunchbox Fun

MARCH 20-30, bid on unique, one-of-a-kind artist books, prints and book objects, hand created by Archbishop Desmond Tutu & Paul Du Toit, Salman Rushdie & Francesco Clemente, Chuck Close, Sting, Michael Stipe, Mario Batali & Jim Dine, Sir Ben Kingsley, Bob Gruen & Yoko Ono, Hugh Masekela, Tony Bennet and Kelsey Bennett, Philip Glass, Shepard Fairey & Mick Rock, Deepak Chopra and Dr Nicholas Perricone in collaboration with Ruth Lingen. All proceeds from the auction will benefit The Lunchbox Fund, a non-profit organization dedicated to providing a daily meal for orphaned, impoverished and at-risk school children.

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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.