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DNA INFO.COM: Rock ‘n’ Roll Photographer Mick Rock Debuts First Photo Art Show

CHELSEA — Legendary photographer Mick Rock, who shot rock ‘n’ roll giants from David Bowie and Lou Reed to Queen and Lady Gaga, is putting on his first ever art show — a collection of digitally altered images of music royalty. The “Man Who Shot the Seventies,” as Rock is known, is displaying enhanced versions of […]

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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.