Speed of Life by Masayoshi Sukita – review - Books

Speed of Life by Masayoshi Sukita – review

Forty years of David Bowie images feature in a new book by Japanese photographer Masayoshi Sukita.

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1st September, 2012

Review

If you’re going to photograph the same rock star again and again over 40 years, you could do a lot worse than choosing David Bowie. Few of Bowie’s contemporaries could match his mercurial and flamboyant sense of the visual or his openness to the ideas of others. It must have been a thrill each time Japanese photographer Masayoshi Sukita encountered Bowie, wondering what his look would be this time, from the Ziggy Stardust guise of their first meeting in 1972, through the punky leather-jacketed period Sukita captured for the 1977 Heroes album cover, and onward. Nonetheless, it was surely ...

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