Rolling Stone: Yeah Yeah Yeahs Reunite for David Bowie, Lou Reed Covers

Rock’s images adorn the covers of some of rock & roll’s most celebrated albums, including Lou Reed’s Transformer, the Stooges’ Raw Power and Queen’s Queen II. He’s also earned renown as a video director, helming iconic clips for David Bowie that include “Life on Mars?” “Space Oddity” and “The Jean Genie.”

So it was no surprise that for the film’s afterparty, a rotating cavalcade of rock vocalists performed a raw, nearly all-covers set of songs by Reed, Bowie, the Ramones, Prince, Velvet Underground, Roxy Music and the Stooges.

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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.