Mick Rock on photographing David Bowie in his Ziggy Stardust phase 

The late great music photographer has created album covers for the likes of Lou Reed and Rory Gallagher, but it's his work with Bowie he's most remembered for. A collection of hundreds of those images is being made available in book form 

Mick Rock and one of his photographs of David Bowie, from the updated book Moonage Daydream: The Life and Times of Ziggy Stardust.

Mick Rock, known as ‘The Man Who Shot the Seventies’, played an essential role in framing David Bowie. A key part of the British rockstar’s entourage in the early 1970s, he took hundreds of photographs of Bowie through the years. Among the most striking were Rock’s pictures of the Ziggy Stardust phase, taken over an 18-month period in 1972-73, which were assembled into a book in 2002, entitled Moonage Daydream: The Life and Times of Ziggy Stardust.

It also featured words from Bowie, talking about his most famous persona and commenting on Rock’s pictures, which led to Rolling Stone describing the publication as “the closest we'll ever get to a straight-up Bowie autobiography”.