Our Black Star
David Robert Jones OAL (8 January 1947 – 10 January 2016)
David Bowie, the shape-shifting recording artist responsible for such era-defining albums as Hunky Dory, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars and Low, was, it could be argued, a living, breathing work of art. Celebrated in 2013 as a style icon and cultural lightning rod by the V&A in London, whose major retrospective David Bowie Is… became the museum’s fastest-ever selling show, Bowie touched, and was touched by, creativity in all its forms — not simply music but also fashion, photography, video art and graphic design. For more unseen portraits of David Bowie by Masayoshi Sukita.
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