Capturing David Bowie & Iggy Pop with Masayoshi Sukita

 

"Sukita was dazzled by Bowie’s performance and, despite very limited English, he managed to arrange a photoshoot with the intergalactic rock star, and from that moment on, a 40-plus-year collaboration was born. Over the years, Sukita would snap Bowie in everything from peacocking fashion shoots to Berlin U-Bahn excursions and Iggy Pop’s birthday party.

Perhaps the highest praise of all for this work comes from fellow photographer Guido Harari, who says: “Sukita has captured Bowie modulating and mutating, reconstructing and deconstructing. In his photos, you can even spot the real David Jones, under the heavy make-up, red hair, Kansai [Yamamoto]’s outrageous stage clothes and all.”"

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