Duffy/Bowie - Five Sessions

Duffy

I tell you something that I’ve always been amazed at is looking into a camera lens at someone and they just change.

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Chris Duffy

It’s been called ‘The Mona Lisa of Pop’. Who could have imagined that the moment he clicked the shutter on the Hasselblad in early 1973 that one of those images would become known as a cultural icon?

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Aladdin Sane Black & white contact sheet, probably created to assist with the back cover solarisation effect.

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George Perry

He was a guy who looked so different from everybody else – there would be no way he could walk along a street, even if he wasn’t famous. You would just think, ‘Christ, who the hell’s that?’

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Lodger Left and overleaf: Published for the first time – the clarity and warmth of Duffy’s unused original Kodachrome transparencies is all apparent.

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Scary Monsters and Super Creeps Left: Test Polaroids for Scary Monsters.

Right: David’s New Romantic/Comedia dell’arte variant outfit was a throwback to his earliest costume experience in Lindsay Kemp’s Pierrot In Turquoise – also designed by the late Natasha Kornilof.

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Five Sessions —

Kevin Cann Chris Duffy

Foreword by Sir Peter Blake

www.antiquecollectorsclub.com

ISBN: 978-1-85149-765-2

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Between 1972 and 1980 photographer Brian Duffy worked with David Bowie on five powerful photo sessions.

From Ziggy Stardust, Aladdin Sane and White Sands to Lodger and Scary Monsters, Duffy/Bowie – Five Sessions features a wealth of rare and previously unseen images from each shoot – and includes fascinating interviews with many of the key people who assisted in their creation.