Com a morte de Mick Rock, talvez um modo de ‘ver’ música tenha se ido.
A foto de Iggy, lascivo no olhar e com o pedestal alinhado; o cromatismo de cores do Ramones; a expressão orgástica de Rory…
Talvez na época do streaming isto não seja mais relevante, mas na época das capas padrão 45 rpm, a imagem do LP era um panorama IMAX de entrada para o conteúdo musical. Imaginem uma foto com uma ótima composição…
… se a música fosse boa, então…
Fiquei sabendo pela morte de Mick, que ele também fez a fotografia de “Rocky Horror Picture Show”. Vou reassistir o filme com atenção especial na ‘velocidade do obturador’.
Question: You recognised something special in the superstars you worked with early on. What qualities did these people have in common and what did you learn from them?
Well, they weren’t superstars when we started working together! But I did see them in that light. Besides being very talented lyrically, they also seemed to take a lot of chemicals. They acted and looked like the same people I had been studying at Cambridge: the English Romantics, the French surrealists and the American Beats. They all seemed to have one thread in common, as different as their work was. They were fuckin’ degenerates!
Mick Rock
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