PHOTOGRAPHER

Mick Rock

1948 - 2021

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Michael David Rock (born Michael Edward Chester Smith; 21 November 1948 – 18 November 2021) was a British photographer. He photographed rock music acts such as Queen, David Bowie, Waylon Jennings, T. Rex, Syd Barrett, Lou Reed, Iggy Pop and The Stooges, The Sex Pistols, Ozzy Osbourne, The Ramones, Joan Jett, Talking Heads, Roxy Music, Thin Lizzy, Geordie, Mötley Crüe, Blondie and Third Eye Blind. Often referred to as "The Man Who Shot the Seventies", he shot most of the memorable photos of Bowie as Ziggy Stardust in his capacity as Bowie's official photographer. Rock's work is held in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery, London. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Mick Rock is the 143rd most popular photographer (up from 145th in 2019), the 5,628th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 6,003rd in 2019) and the 9th most popular British Photographer.

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Among PHOTOGRAPHERS

Among photographers, Mick Rock ranks 143 out of 148Before him are Martha Cooper, Fernando Pereira, Wolfgang Tillmans, Titian Peale, Alvin Langdon Coburn, and Andres Serrano. After him are Terry Richardson, Steven Klein, Alice Austen, Pete Souza, and Zanele Muholi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1948, Mick Rock ranks 691Before him are Gerrit Graham, El Kazovsky, Pedro Morenés, Betty Thomas, S. E. Hinton, and Susan Bernard. After him are Howard Dean, Juan José Muñante, Karel Neffe, Horacio López Salgado, Rainer Schmidt, and Hilarion Kapral. Among people deceased in 2021, Mick Rock ranks 627Before him are Albán Vermes, John Shelby Spong, Satya Vrat Shastri, Mike Gravel, Chelato Uclés, and Beverly Cleary. After him are Tuomo Ylipulli, Fofi Gennimata, Serhiy Novikov, José Villegas, Margreth Weivers, and Graham McRae.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Mick Rock ranks 5,630 out of 8,785Before him are Felicia Hemans (1793), Nick Clegg (1967), Harry Atkinson (1831), Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset (1536), Susan Hill (1942), and Antonia Thomas (1986). After him are Laura Donnelly (1982), Alex McLeish (1959), Jodhi May (1975), Andy Carroll (1989), Judd Trump (1989), and Jack Fairman (1913).

Among PHOTOGRAPHERS In United Kingdom

Among photographers born in United Kingdom, Mick Rock ranks 9Before him are David Bailey (1938), Cecil Beaton (1904), Alexander Gardner (1821), Henry Peach Robinson (1830), Zaida Ben-Yusuf (1869), and Allan Warren (1948).