Thread by @dean_frey

Remembering David Bowie on his birthday 🎂
📷 Norman Parkinson
Town & Country, 1982
"Bowie was his generation’s standard-bearer for rock as theater: something constructed and inflated yet sincere in its artifice, saying more than naturalism could."
- Jon Pareles

David Bowie by Mick Rock
New York, 2002
Another fine photographer we lost in 2021 #RIP

David Bowie by Mick Rock, Queenliner, UK, 1973

One of the great LP covers: David Bowie's The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, from 1972.
Brian Ward took the photos in black & white, & the images were colourised by illustrator Terry Pastor.

Terry O'Neill
David Bowie on the set of The Man Who Fell To Earth, 1975
"I didn’t like his voice, because I’m a jazz fan, a blues fan, & not really into that type of music. But he was a fascinating guy to work with."

David Bowie & Iman by Irving Penn for Vogue, 1994
"Mr. Penn’s humor, prescience, and genuine kindness were utterly disarming; you became a docile hunk of clay to be shaped."
- Iman

Iman & David Bowie by Bruce Weber, 1995
Iman's 2016 tribute 💔:
"Some months ago, the stars demanded David’s presence. We surrendered a husband, a father, a father-in-law, a friend, a mentor, & all the nameless daily ecstasies that occur between people who love one another."

Wubbo de Jong
David Bowie at the Paradiso Amsterdam
March 1987

Indrani Pal-Chaudhuri
David Bowie, Le Monde, by Indrani + Markus

A fine portrait of David Bowie by Frank Ockenfels III

More David Bowie from Frank Ockenfels III. This is his version of the classic Irving Penn corner shot.

Nicolas Roeg, David Bowie & Rip Torn rehearse a scene from The Man Who Fell to Earth
📷 Steve Schapiro, 1976

David Bowie, Station to Station, 1976
The cover photo is also by Steve Schapiro, so it's likely from the same shoot.

Coffee with David Bowie ☕️
Backstage in Sweden, 1983
📷 Denis O'Regan, from his book Ricochet: David Bowie 1983, An Intimate Portrait
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David Bowie & William S. Burroughs by Terry O'Neill, 1974

Lynn Goldsmith
David Bowie as Andy Warhol, 1995

David Bowie by David Bebbington
C-type colour print, 1969
@NPGLondon

That was the year his second album was released: "David Bowie" in the UK, "Man of Words/Man of Music" in the US. Re-released in 1972 as Space Oddity.
Pay attention, there'll be a test.

This shot has been called 'The Mona Lisa of Pop': Brian Duffy's portrait of David Bowie for the Aladdin Sane album
K3 Ultrachrome print on Fuji Baryte Gloss paper, 1973
@NPGLondon

Brian Duffy's original Polaroid image of David Bowie used on the Lodger album cover, 1979

Brian Duffy's shot of David Bowie resting on a metal support frame being made up by makeup artist Anthony Clavet and his assistant. For the cover photograph of Lodger, 1979

A contact sheet for Duffy's David Bowie Lodger shoot, 1979

Before the Lodger project, Brian Duffy took photos on the Man Who Fell To Earth set in 1975. Afterwards he and David Bowie went to White Sands to take a series of photographs.

And after Lodger it was time for 1980's Scary Monsters. David Bowie by Brian Duffy.

A contact sheet from Duffy's Scary Monsters shoot with David Bowie, 1980

"I'm an instant star, just add water."
- David Bowie
Portrait by Stephen Finer (b.1949)
@NPGLondon

David Bowie reads The Idiot, in a READ poster for @ALALibrary
📷 Chalkie Davies, 1986

"But how could you live and have no story to tell?"
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Another Chalkie Davies photo of David Bowie becomes an @ALALibrary READ poster, 1986

Terry O'Neill
One of many great shots of David Bowie. This is from 1974.

David Bowie by Steve Schapiro, 1975

David Bowie by Steve Schapiro
LA, 1974

David Bowie by Irving Penn
New York, 1999