British photographer Mick Rock, known for having immortalized countless music legends in iconic images, from David Bowie to the Sex Pistols, has died at the age of 72, his family reported Friday.
"It is with great regret that we announce that our
dear psychedelic renegade
Mick Rock has made the Jungian journey to the other side," they wrote on his Twitter account, referring to psychoanalyst Carl Jung.
"Those who had the pleasure of living in its orbit know that Mick was
much more than 'the man who photographed the 1970s'"
, as he was popularly known. "He was a poet of photography, a true force of nature who spent his days doing exactly what he loved, always in his deliciously outrageous way," they added.
The family did not specify the circumstances of the death
of the photographer, born in London in 1948 and graduated in Medieval and Modern Languages from the University of Cambridge.
An iconic photographer of the rock scene, he was the author of famous portraits of Lou Reed, Iggy Pop, the Sex Pistols, and Blondie, and became known in the early 1970s
for his early portraits of Bowie
.
For almost two years, he was the official photographer for the British singer-songwriter, for whom he produced record covers, posters and the videos for "Live on Mars" and "Space Oddity." Rock also followed the life of the flamboyant and decadent Ziggy Stardust, Bowie's alter ego between 1972 and 1973, which crossed paths with Lou Reed, Iggy Pop, Roxy Music, and Marianne Faithfull.
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